Volume 12 , Issue 15

National Union Party

Wikipedia definition of the National Union Party, "The National Union Party was the name used by the Republican Party for the national ticket in the 1864 presidential election, held in the northern states during the Civil War. State Republican parties did not usually change their name. The temporary name was used to attract War Democrats who would not vote for the Republican Party. It nominated incumbent President Abraham Lincoln and former Democrat Andrew Johnson, who were elected in a landslide."

"The National Union Party was created in May 1864 during the Civil War. A faction of anti-Lincoln Radical Republicans held the belief that Lincoln was incompetent, and therefore could not be re-elected. A number of Radical Republicans formed a party called the Radical Democracy Party, and a few hundred delegates convened in Cleveland starting on May 31, 1864, eventually nominating John C. Frémont, who had also been the Republicans' first presidential standard-bearer during the 1856 U.S. presidential election." -- National Union Party - United States
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