JEFFERSON CITY (AP) - For people who just can't get enough of presidential politics, the Missouri State Museum is offering a special exhibit and program on the elections of 1844. The museum is ...

Sheet provides county-by-county 1844 election results for 26 states. 1844 gubernatorial and 1840 Presidential election results are also provided for some states. Sheet was issued as an extra to the ...

In the 1844 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln was disappointed that the Whig candidate, Henry Clay, was defeated by James Polk, a Democrat. In Lincoln’s view, abolitionists and extreme anti ...

“I didn’t expect so many,” Susan Tamulevich, the museum’s executive director, told the newspaper ... which sailed from New London on July 17, 1844. Jo Ann Morris, a retired high school ...

The main thread that runs through the work, however, is the Presidential election, in which the mildly anti-slavery ... and many more. American 1844 is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in ante ...