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presidential election of 1868  

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  • THE 1868 ELECTION, the first post-War election for the presidency, reflected the lingering battles between a Radical Republican Congress and a Democratic president. Conducted in the wake of the passage of Reconstruction measures and the impeachment of President Johnson, the election centered on a Democratic Party whose southern base was still petitioning to return to the Union, and a Republican Party attempting to solidify its electoral majority in the postbellum United States. [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior; Presidential Election of 1868]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MMM5X3VG-J

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