As of Election Day, Lincoln had successfully avoided not only his three opponents, but also his own running mate, Hannibal Hamlin. Republicans had nominated the Maine senator for vice president without Lincoln’s knowledge, much less his consent – true to another prevailing political custom that left such choices exclusively to the delegates – in an attempt to balance the Chicago convention’s choice of a Westerner for the presidency.
-Harold Holzer
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