The General Committee of Indiana's Constitutional Union Party met in Indianapolis and made John McLean of Ohio its unanimous choice for President, and John Bell of Tennessee as Vice-President. The Committee also selected delegates for the national convention in Baltimore, Maryland upcoming in less than four weeks.  (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Francis Vincent, Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register.... 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860 (Philadelphia: Francis Vincent, 1860), 283.
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Campaigns/Elections
Election of 1860
Indianapolis, IN
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