Former Whig (nationalist) Representative Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, wins the Republican (nationalist) presidential nomination on the third ballot (349-116). Also-ran candidates are,
111½ votes – Republican Senator William H. Seward, of New York;
2 votes – Former Free Soil (anti-slavery) Senator Salmon P. Chase, of the federal enclave of Ohio;
1 vote – Former Whig State Representative Cassius M. Clay, of the Commonwealth of Kentucky;
1 vote – Former Whig Senator William L. Dayton, of New Jersey;
½ vote –Associate Justice John McLean, of the Supreme Court of the federal united States.
NOTE: Among the delegates who supported Lincoln were exiled “Forty-Eighter” proto-communist revolutionaries Heinrich Bornstein of Missouri, a friend of Karl Marx; Johann Bernhard Stallo and Frederick Hassaurek, of the federal enclave of Ohio; and Carl Schurz, of Wisconsin.
[added 3/5/2022] Thanks to Bill Holmes for this entry.
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References:
Alan Stang—Republican Party, Red From the Start
www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan30.htm