- A Constitutional Union campaign poster for the 1860 election in which are shown John Bell (left), the presidential nominee; and Edward Everett, the vice presidential nominee.
- The Constitutional Union Party was a short-lived political party in the United States that emerged in 1860 as a moderate alternative to the increasingly polarized...
- Constitutional Union Party , U.S. political party that sought in the pre-Civil War election of 1860 to rally support for the Union and the Constitution without regard...
- Constitutional Union Party (United States).
- The party recognized “no political principle but the Constitution of the country, the union of the states and the enforcement of laws.”
- In the November election the Constitutional Union party found its greatest strength among conservatives in the border states, where the effects of civil...
- Late in 1859, with growing dissatisfaction in the southern states over excessive protective tariffs and failures to enforce fugitive slave laws, old-line Whigs and...
- When looking back at the history of the United States from our perspective in 2011 it is hard to understand the significance of the Constitutional Union Party.
- In the November polling, the Constitutional Union Party did not receive 50% of the votes in any state, but due to the split between Southern and Northern...
- The 1860 Constitutional Union Convention met in May 1860, nominating John Bell of Tennessee for president and Edward Everett of Massachusetts for vice...