In the 1860 election he was opposed by John C. Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen A. Douglas. In 1864 George B McClellan represented the Democratic Party. A series of debates to the 1858 Senate election for Illinois. Slavery and "popular sovereignty" and states rights were the issues that wre discussed. Doughlas defeated Lincon for the Senate seat but couldn't do the same trick for the presiential election.
George McClellan ran against Lincoln on a peace platform for the Democrats. He was beaten by Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln suffered from depression from time to time. There was a period before he ran for President when he had trouble living a normal life.
It was Stephen Douglass and John C. Breckenridge who he was going against.
Abraham Lincoln ran for president twice, in 1860 and 1864.
He lived in a log cabin and was a farm boy. He actually ran for president the first time and lost but then he ran again and won.
In the 1984 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln ran against George B. McClellan, a Democrat. Lincoln won with 55% of the vote.
George McClellan ran against Lincoln on a peace platform for the Democrats. He was beaten by Lincoln.
Stephen Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Illinois Senate election.
No. Lincoln was never vice president and he was from a different party than was Buchanan, who preceded him as President. (John C. Breckinridge, who was one of the candidates who ran against Lincoln, was Buchanan's vice president.)
Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebreaska Act and the Freeport Doctrine
Yes.
because he wonted to be president of the USA.
Abraham Lincoln was re-elected November 8, 1864.
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Abraham Lincoln suffered from depression from time to time. There was a period before he ran for President when he had trouble living a normal life.