5. 1864

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-99
Author(s):  
Louis P. Masur
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Presidential Nomination ◽  
Union Soldiers

“1864” demonstrates that the Union defeats across Virginia in that year came at a politically precarious time for Abraham Lincoln, with rivals angling for the Republication presidential nomination and Confederates hoping for his defeat. News that Atlanta had fallen revived Northern morale and Lincoln’s chances for re-election. Though the election campaign turned nasty, characterized by race baiting and fears of “miscegenation.” Lincoln was re-elected by an overwhelming margin, supported by the votes of Union soldiers. The new vice-president was Andrew Johnson, a prominent War Democrat. Meanwhile, Jefferson Davis had no choice but to watch Confederate ranks thin as a result of battle, disease, and desertion.

scholarly journals Introduction (Special Edition – The Presidential Nomination Process)

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 289-291
Author(s):  
Wayne P. Steger
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Presidential Nomination ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Democratic Country

Understanding why certain candidates get nominated is an important aspect of political scientists. This topic is a narrow one and influences a wider variety of subjects such as the political parties, general elections, and even the extent to which the United States is a democratic country. Presidential nominees matter—they become the foremost spokesperson and the personified image of the party (Miller and Gronbeck 1994), the main selectors of issues and policies for their party’s general election campaign (Petrocik 1996; Tedesco 2001), a major force in defining the ideological direction of a political party (Herrera 1995), and candidates that voters select among in the general election. This volume is devoted to presidential nominations and the 2008 nomination specifically.

The Red River Campaign, 1864

2021 ◽  
pp. 504-519
Author(s):  
T. Michael Parrish
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Red River ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
Red River Valley ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Union Soldiers ◽  
Commercial Center

The Red River Campaign in the spring of 1864 was the disastrous culmination of the Union high command’s persistent efforts to conquer Louisiana and Texas. Abraham Lincoln ordered Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, commander of the Department of the Gulf, to lead a large force from New Orleans up the Red River Valley, capture Shreveport (the Confederacy’s Trans-Mississippi capital and major commercial center), and invade Texas. Lincoln delayed an important campaign against Mobile and diverted significant manpower from the western theater and Arkansas, along with a large fleet of naval vessels, to support Banks in order to accomplish sweeping economic, political, and foreign policy goals. Mismanaged by Banks from the start, the campaign suffered defeat before reaching Shreveport, but it created havoc in the Red River Valley by allowing many slaves to flee to Union forces, compelling many civilians to flee with their slaves to Texas for safety, and inducing defeated Union soldiers to destroy a vast array of civilian properties and towns. As a result, northern Louisiana suffered economically for many years, while Texas emerged from the war continuing to grow into an economic powerhouse.

US vice-presidency will gain more influence

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Walk Away ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Vice Presidency ◽  
State Of The Economy

Significance Biden’s choice will matter for all the normal reasons: running mates can help win votes, and every vice-president needs to be capable of stepping into the presidency and be popularly regarded as such. As Biden said in an interview earlier this month, he needs someone “if I were to walk away immediately from the office for whatever reason” who can become president and command public confidence. Impacts Biden will announce his running mate by August, when the Democratic Party’s convention will be held. At 74 and 78 respectively in 2021, Trump and Biden would be the oldest people to be inaugurated US president. Preparedness for another wave of COVID-19 and the state of the economy will be major election campaign issues.

El Salvador’s new corruption body faces challenges

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Violent Crime ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
International Commission ◽  
The Political ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Content Type ◽  
San Salvador ◽  
Public Concerns

Subject Anti-corruption efforts. Significance On September 30, Vice-President Felix Ulloa met a UN mission in San Salvador to discuss possible support for a new anti-corruption mission. Inspired by similar bodies in neighbouring Guatemala and Honduras, the International Commission against Corruption and Impunity in El Salvador (CICIES) is intended to scrutinise political malpractice and address public concerns surrounding the political elite. The announcement of its establishment last month by President Nayib Bukele came within the first 100 days of his term, meeting one of his election campaign pledges. Impacts The CICIES will probably have less autonomy than its Guatemalan and Honduran equivalents. The politicisation of anti-corruption debates threatens to hinder progress on the issue. Reducing corruption could weaken gangs’ influence over public institutions but will do little to ease violent crime.

scholarly journals One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Retrogression of Governance Reform and Anti-corruption Measure in Indonesia 1999–2001

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Vishnu Juwono
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Order ◽  
Judicial Reform ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
The People ◽  
One Step ◽  
First Time ◽  
Governance Reforms

There were high hopes that Gus Dur, after being appointed by the People Consultative Assembly (MPR) in 1999, would bring significant governance reform and more progressive anti-corruption measures for the first time because two top leaders (Gus Dur and Megawati) were from the opposition in the New Order era. This paper attempts to evaluate the governance reform and anti-corruption measures in 1999–2001. This paper argues that there was a valuable opportunity to push for further governance reforms and a bolder anti-corruption drive, as there was a legitimate political top leadership stemming from the free-and-fair election in 1999 embodied in the appointment of Gus Dur and Megawati Soekarnoputri as president and vice president, respectively, by the Consultative People Assembly (MPR). However, the political bickering and blatant competition over state resources for the election campaign in 2004 underlying Indonesia’s former government led to a setback in several governance reform areas, including judicial reform.

Trump will stay but US legislation will suffer

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Presidential Nomination

Significance This comes after House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday announced impeachment investigations against Trump. The Democrats suspect that Trump blocked an aid package to pressure Ukraine into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, to undermine his position as leading contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Impacts Trump’s wish to release transcripts could aid his defence but undermine executive branch privacy. The Republican-led Senate may initiate investigations of House Democrats. The Republicans are unlikely to drop Trump from the 2020 ticket. The Trump impeachment risk will increase if Democrats win the House and Senate in 2020. The acting director of national intelligence will testify to Congress on the whistle-blower report tomorrow.

A Great Social Problem

Men Is Cheap ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 177-206
Author(s):  
Brian P. Luskey
Keyword(s):  
Social Problem ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
The South ◽  
Free Labor ◽  
War Department ◽  
The North ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
Union Soldiers

The war for Union, Abraham Lincoln reasoned, would be won on its balance sheet as much as in the hearts and minds of its citizens. This was true both from the perspective of the War Department and individual northern households. Union soldiers—volunteers, draftees, and substitutes—poured from the North toward the South to vanquish the slaveholders’ aristocracy. The manpower that went into their killing and dying work produced the movement of thousands of white and black southern refugees to the households of white northerners. Recruiters, brokers, benevolent societies, and northern families—all believers that free labor could emancipate them—would try to seize the power, the capital, embedded in the labor of the men, women, and children fleeing to them. Doing so would help them win the war for Union.

A Republic in the Ranks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachery A. Fry
Keyword(s):  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Enlisted Men ◽  
Peace Activism ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
Army Of The Potomac ◽  
Union Soldiers

The Union Army of the Potomac was a hotbed of political activity during the Civil War. It proved a source of constant frustration for Abraham Lincoln, and its commander, George B. McClellan, even secured the Democratic nomination for president in 1864. This book uses untapped sources to recast our understanding of soldier ideology and presents the most comprehensive view yet of the army’s political story. It recounts the struggle between Republicans and Democrats for political allegiance among the army’s rank and file, in the process showing that the army’s captains, majors, and colonels spurred a pro-Republican political awakening among the enlisted men that burst onto the public stage through newspaper editorials, unit resolutions, and letters to home front politicians. The book traces the heated campaigning and voting activity on the front lines during critical elections such as the 1864 presidential contest, highlighting how an army that had once revered McClellan renounced him for consorting with the forces of peace activism and treason. Union soldiers asserted themselves as the guardians of civic virtue and used the power of political organization to set the terms in a heated debate over wartime loyalty.

1. Vengeance: April–December 1865

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-29
Author(s):  
Allen C. Guelzo
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Southern States ◽  
The North

‘Vengeance, April–December 1865’ begins with the death of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, after being shot by the Southerner, John Wilkes Booth, and the swearing in of Lincoln’s vice president, Andrew Johnson, as the seventeenth president. Johnson promised to deal harshly with the guilty Confederacy, but how this was to be translated into policy was another question. Reconstruction of the Union would require dealing with a thorny hedge of legal, constitutional, and political questions. Initially, Johnson had to concentrate his attention on ending the war. His early hard line was soon replaced with a softened approach to the Southern states, much to the anger of the Republicans of the North.

Worthy of His Hire

Men Is Cheap ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 112-142
Author(s):  
Brian P. Luskey
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Civic Virtue ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Free Labor ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Union Soldiers

In the second summer of the war, northern states and localities established committees to raise bounty funds by subscription or loan and petitioned the federal government to add its own resources to sweeten their offers. Otherwise, they would not obtain enough volunteers to meet the quotas assigned by the Lincoln administration. The bounties that enticed Union soldiers to demonstrate their civic virtue were the very things that enticed them to defraud their government. When soldiers did not receive the bounties promised by their contracts, they felt “deceived.” Soldiers who came to distrust the promises of contracts sought other avenues to seize greater autonomy. When President Abraham Lincoln sought to use emancipation to strengthen the Union’s war effort in ways that validated free labor’s commitment to the rights of those with capital, white northerners saw their chance. The demise of slavery gave them opportunities to envision a free labor future in which they would benefit at former slaves’ expense. White northerners envisioned mobilizing these black laborers’ “capital in self” to bolster their own wages and credit their claims to independence through the war for Union.

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