John Bell had support in the border states but did not have support in the north or the south. The southern states preferred Southern Democratic candidate John Breckinridge. The northern states preferred Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln and Northern Democratic candidate Stephen Douglas. John Bell received 39 electoral votes. Bell received electoral votes from Virginia 15, Kentucky 12, and Tennessee 12.
Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln won the state of Michigan during the 1860 presidential election. Lincoln won most of the Midwest and northern states.
The presidential candidate who received the least votes in the South in the election of 1860 was John Bell.
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Ulysses S. Grant supported Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election.
No, he ran for U.S. President in 1860 as the Democratic Party's southern candidate.
Constitutional Party candidate John Bell condemned sectional political parties and sectional strife in the U.S. Senate.
Abraham Lincoln was the winning Republican candidate for president in 1860.
Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.
No. Democratic Party candidate James Buchanan won the 1856 presidential election. Buchanan won 19 states including all of the southern states. The southern states seceded after Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election.
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Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.
In the presidential election of 1860 eleven of Southern States supported John Cabell Breckenridge, the former Vice President during Buchanan Administration.