1868 United States presidential election (Liberty Steers Freedmen Well)

The 1868 United States presidential election would finish with the victory, by a landslide, of Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner over his Democratic opponent George Pendleton (who in the past had been the running mate of General McClellan and had been widely denounced as a Copperhead) and the splinter Republican candidacy of former Indiana Governor Oliver Morton (who was a Radical Republican himself but found Sumner's plans too extreme, even for his already radical taste). The Massachusetts Senator would gain over 60% of the popular vote and would carry 24 states, crushing the Democrats, while flipping several seats in the House; even going so far as to have Nelson Turney defeat Philadelph Van Trump in Ohio's 12th congressional district, flipping the entire state into the Republican column for the first time in its history. The historic victory Sumner would achieve (less than 20 Electoral College votes away from Madison’s sweep in 1820) would grant the Republican Party unity under his leadership as well as a clear path forward when it came to Reconstruction, as the Republicans now held a supermajority within the chambers of the U.S. Congress, along with a stronghold on the Presidency.

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