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...and, four years later, in the [[United States presidential election, 1856|1856 presidential election]], he again failed to win election as the [[Know Noth ...er, he revised New York's banking system, making it a model for the future National Banking System.

...ark horse]] candidate on the 49th ballot at the [[1852 Democratic National Convention]]. In the [[U.S. presidential election, 1852|presidential election]], Pierc ...arty, Pierce was not renominated at the [[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856 presidential election]] and was replaced by [[James Buchanan]]. After losin

...religious freedom and popular control of government. The president of the convention was William King, a prominent Bath merchant and shipbuilder who subsequentl ...Maine Law" remained in effect, in one form or another, until the repeal of National Prohibition in 1934. Abolitionist societies were active throughout the stat

...ates]]. A long-time [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democrat-Republican]], he was elected [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] on Tyler was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the [[14th United States Congress|Fourteenth Congress]] to fill the vaca

...|thumb|left|200px|''A Serviceable Garment or Reverie of a Bachelor''<br>An 1856 cartoon depicts Buchanan sitting in his room examining the "[[Cuba]]" patch ...ited Kingdom|minister to the Court of St. James's]] (Britain) from 1853 to 1856, during which time he helped to draft the [[Ostend Manifesto]], which propo

...ly extended from lat. 40°N to the Canadian border, was firmly Northern and Republican in sympathy during the Civil War. In 1863 the territory was reduced to its ...showed their discontent by joining the Populist party. The first national convention of the Populist party was held at Omaha in 1892, and Nebraska's most famous

| party= [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican]] and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] ...S. Senator]] as a [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican]]. But he resigned within a year. In 1798, he was appointed a judge of the

...Committee]], he was a chief lieutenant to President Jackson to abolish the National Bank. ...ns. These three campaigns of attacking the Whigs chiefly helped him gain a national spotlight within the Democratic Party, which helped him win the nomination

...can Party|Republican]] (1854-1864), [[National Union Party (United States)|National Union]] (1864-1865) ...extinction... .'"</ref> Lincoln won the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. Durin

| birth_date={{birth date|1856|12|28}} | death_date={{death date and age|1924|02|03|1856|12|28}}

...ecame part of [[Quincy, Massachusetts]] in 1792 and is now part of [[Adams National Historical Park]]. His father, a farmer and a [[Deacon]], also named John ( ...ing documents. As radical as it was to actually write constitutions (prior convention suggested that a society's form of government needn't be codified, nor shou

...elected to the Presidency in the era of [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] political domination that lasted from 1860 to 1912. Cleveland's admirers ...rney]], losing narrowly to his friend and roommate, [[Lyman K. Bass]], the Republican nominee.<ref name=nevins52/> Cleveland then stayed out of politics for a f

|party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] Grant first reached national prominence by taking Forts Henry and Donelson in 1862 in the first Union vi

| party=[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] ...Jeffersonian democracy]] and the co-founder and leader of the [[Democratic-Republican Party]], which dominated [[Politics of the United States|American politics]