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1860 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election

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Field	Value
election_name	1860 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election
country	Pennsylvania
type	presidential
election_date
ongoing	no
previous_election	1857 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election
previous_year	1857
next_election	1863 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election
next_year	1863
image1	File:Andrew_Curtin2_(3x4a).jpg
image_size	150x150px
nominee1	Andrew Gregg Curtin
party1	Republican Party (United States)
popular_vote1	262,346
percentage1	53.26%
image2	File:HDFoster.jpg
nominee2	Henry Donnel Foster
party2	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote2	230,230
percentage2	46.74%
map_image	1860 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election results map by county.svg
map_size	260px
map_caption	County results
title	Governor
before_election	William F. Packer
before_party	Democratic Party (United States)
after_election	Andrew Curtin
after_party	Republican Party (United States)

Curtain:
Foster:
The 1860 Pennsylvania gubernatorial was held on October 9, almost one month before Presidential election. Andrew Curtin of the newly formed Republican Party won the governor's mansion over Democrat Henry Donnel Foster.

Curtin would go on to become an important figure in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States. Pennsylvania's 15th governor and a strong supporter of President Abraham Lincoln, he was inaugurated on January 15, 1861. One of the first state governors to send military units to Washington, D.C. in response to Lincoln's call for help to defend the nation's capital in April of that same year, he was the eponym of Camp Curtin, which became one of the largest staging grounds for the Union Army after it opened on April 18, 1861. In 1863, following the Battle of Gettysburg, Curtin led the state and nation in creating a national cemetery for the Union Army's fallen soldiers. Post-war, he led the creation of a state-funded system of more than forty soldiers' orphans' schools to educate and care for children across Pennsylvania whose fathers had been killed during the war.

Candidates

Democratic

Henry Donnel Foster, former U.S. Congressman (from Westmoreland County)

Republican

Andrew Curtin, former Secretary of the Commonwealth (from Centre County)

Campaign

As in most of the country, the growing tension over the expansion of slavery was the dominant electoral issue. Although outgoing Governor William F. Packer had been lauded for expanding public education and for aiding the state's iron and glass industries through tough economic times, his reputation was tainted by a strong connection to President James Buchanan. Nonetheless, the state Democratic Party remained strong, and, despite the national split, leadership united behind Foster. By contrast, the Republicans, which had participated in only one prior gubernatorial election, was marked by division. Although Abraham Lincoln was emerging as the party's presidential candidate, state party bosses had hoped to nominate Simon Cameron; it took some time for the party establishment to unify around Curtin, a Lincoln supporter, and his campaign got off to somewhat of a slow start.

Although both candidates discussed similar issues in their campaign, particularly public education and industrial development, local issues were totally overshadowed by the impending threat of war. While Democrats, who backed the Stephen A. Douglas and the Northern plank of their national party almost unanimously, rallied hard behind Foster, the problems with the party's national machinery caught up with their candidate. Curtin, a powerful speaker, was able to convince voters that choosing the Republican line was the only way to keep the nation from division, a message that allowed him to achieve a narrow victory. http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-12A

Results

Notes

References

"[https://www.newspapers.com/image/322144341/?terms=%22Andrew%20Curtin%22&match=1 A Famous War Governor: Andrew Gregg Curtin, Known as the Soldiers' Friend]" (obituary). Indianapolis, Indiana: ''The Indianapolis Journal'', front page (subscription required).
Tristan, David. "[https://www.abc27.com/digital-originals/midstate-markers-pennsylvanias-war-governor-andrew-curtin/ Midstate Markers: Pennsylvania's 'War Governor' Andrew Curtin]." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: WHTM-TV, July 28, 2022 (retrieved online June 3, 2023).
''The Pennsylvania Manual'', p. 728.
''The Pennsylvania Manual'', p. 727.

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