The First Presidential Election. Share full article March 20, 1868 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from March 20, 1868, Page 5 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine ...

To the Editor of the New-York Time : In your Sunday edition an inquirer, who subscribes himself "Armonck," wishes to know why the State of New York did not vote on the first Presidential election ...

Following the incident, many Black voters did not participate in the November 1868 presidential election out of fear. Marvin Broadwater Sr., a community activist and one of the organizers of this ...

The Insurrection Clause became part of U.S. Constitution on July 9, 1868. Coincidentally, that was the same day that the Democratic Party finalized their national ticket for the first presidential ...

In 1868, Black Suffrage Was on the Ballot Every election season in the United States revolves around a set of issues—health care, foreign affairs, the economy. In 1868, at the height of the ...

No Ohioan has been a presidential nominee since, but Ohio earlier dominated the presidential landscape. Over the period 1868 to 1920, Ohioans won nine of the fourteen presidential elections: two ...

SUSSEX COUNTY -- With its unusual twists and turns, the 2016 presidential election will undoubtedly be recorded in future history books as "that election." In Sussex County, however, the 1868 ...

And those laws were soon in coming. In the 1868 presidential election, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the office with the slogan, "Let Us Have Peace." Republicans also won a majority in Congress.

On this day in 1868, the United States held its first presidential election in the aftermath of the Civil War. Since Texas, Mississippi and Virginia had yet to be re-admitted into the Union, they ...

Here's a terrific visualization Pete Warden at OpenHeatMap of how the Democratic presidential nominee fared in every state in every presidential election from 1868 to 2008. And it takes only 19 ...

Like Amy Coney Barrett, Edwin M. Stanton was confirmed by a bitterly divided Senate for the high court in 1869 without a single vote from a Democrat. But Stanton, who'd served as Lincoln's ...