THE QUARTERLY
OF THE
OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
POLITICAL HISTORY OF OREGON FROM 1865 TO 1876.
By Wm. D. Fenton.
Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated President of the United States March 4, 1865, chosen as president the second time, and receiving two hundred and twelve electoral votes out of the total two hundred and thirty-three cast. At that time only twenty-four states voted: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, representing eighty-one electoral votes not participating. The election occurred November 8, 1864, and the electoral votes were counted February 8, 1865. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois and Andrew Johnson of Tennessee were the republican candidates for president and vice president, although Mr. Johnson was a democrat; and George B. McClellan of New Jersey and George H. Pendleton of Ohio were the democratic candidates. The republicans polled two million two hundred and sixteen thousand and sixty-seven votes, and the democrats one million eight hundred and eight
