ELECTION DAY, the Kansas Civil War continues: pro-slavery Electors—including 1,700 ineligible Missourians—elect Democrat (constitutionalist) former Lieutenant Colonel John W. Whitfield, a veteran of the Mexican-American War, as the federal enclave’s non-voting delegate to Congress.
[restored 2/12/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Article IV, Section 3 [Clause 2]
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 147.
John W. Whitfield | Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865
www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org/content/john-w-whitfield
Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding Kansas
books.google.com/books?isbn=0826262554
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