SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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John Bell
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Drake Bell
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Stephen Douglass
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Fredrick Douglass
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Detailed explanation-1: -He was Speaker of the House for the 23rd Congress (1834–1835), and briefly served as Secretary of War during the administration of William Henry Harrison (1841). In 1860, he ran for president as the candidate of the Constitutional Union Party, a third party which took a neutral stance on the issue of slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 1860 Constitutional Union Convention met in May 1860, nominating John Bell of Tennessee for president and Edward Everett of Massachusetts for vice president.
Detailed explanation-3: -John Bell, (born Feb. 15, 1797, near Nashville, Tenn., U.S.-died Sept. 10, 1869, Dover, Tenn.), American politician and nominee for president on the eve of the American Civil War. Bell entered the U.S. House of Representatives in 1827 and served there as a Democrat until 1841.