The Only Third-Party U.S. President…..
November 6, 1860…….
Abraham Lincoln (Republican) is elected. He was the 16th U.S. president, with Hannibal Hamlin serving as his vice president. His victory was due to his support in the North and West, with no ballots cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states. He won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states, receiving 1,866,452 votes (39.8%) of the total in a four-way race, carrying the free Northern states, along with California and Oregon. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by northern states opposed to the expansion of slavery. While they opposed the expansion of slavery, they did not call for ending it in the southern states.