That's The Ticket:
A Parade of Presidential Elections
Democratic Ticket  | |
| Presidential candidate: | JAMES BUCHANAN, Minister to Great Britain |
| VP candidate: | JOHN BRECKINRIDGE, former Kentucky Congressman |
| Popular votes: | 1,836,072 (45.3%) |
| Electoral votes: | 174 |
| Republican Ticket | |
| Presidential candidate: | John Fremont, former California Senator |
| VP candidate: | William Dayton, former New Jersey Senator |
| Popular votes: | 1,342,345 (33.1%) |
| Electoral votes: | 114 |
| American Party ("Know-Nothing") Ticket | |
| Presidential candidate: | Millard Fillmore, former President |
| VP candidate: | Andrew Jackson Donelson, former Minister to Germany |
| Popular votes: | 873,053 (21.5%) |
| Electoral votes: | 8 |
Election Facts
- The extension of slavery into the West was the hot-button issue of this election and illuminated the division between North and South.
- This election reflected the political firestorm that followed the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.
- The act repealed the anti-slavery provisions of the 1820 Missouri Compromise and allowed the citizens of the new Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide for themselves whether to make slavery legal.
- Protests to the act led to the formation of the anti-slavery Republican Party in 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin.
- The Whig Party dissolved over the slavery issue. Its "Know Nothing" remnants sought to curb immigration and naturalization.
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