27 nov 1860 - Abraham Lincoln elected President
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Abraham Lincoln elected President of the United States in a four-way contest, receiving only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois.
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