Intro The 1860 U.S. Presidential election was one of the most important and controversial in the country's history. Characterized by four candidates from a split Democratic Party, a Republican Party making its second presidential run, and an emergent Constitutional Union Party, the election would see undemocratic elements, all the candidates winning electoral college votes, and a culmination of what had become a national quarrel over slavery.
The most bizarre part of it was that Mary Todd Lincoln was romantically pursued by THREE of those four candidates in her life: Lincoln, Douglas, and Breckinridge.
The most bizarre part of it was that Mary Todd Lincoln was romantically pursued by THREE of those four candidates in her life: Lincoln, Douglas, and Breckinridge.