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1864 National Union National Convention

The 1864 National Union National Convention was the United States presidential nominating convention of the National Union Party, which was a name adopted by the main faction of the Republican Party in a coalition with many, if not most, War Democrats after some Republicans and War Democrats nominated John C. Frémont over Lincoln. During the Convention, the party officially called for the end of the ongoing Civil War, the eradication of slavery and the adoption of the Emancipation Proclamation.^[1]

Convention

National Union
June 7–8, 1864

Baltimore, Maryland

Front Street Theatre

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois

Andrew Johnson of Tennessee

President
Abraham Lincoln
of Illinois

Commanding General
Ulysses S. Grant
of Illinois
(No Political Intentions)

Treasury Secretary
Salmon P. Chase
of Ohio
(Declined Consideration)

Military Governor
Andrew Johnson
of Tennessee

Vice President
Hannibal Hamlin
of Maine

Former Senator
Daniel Dickinson
of New York

Major General
Benjamin Butler
of Massachusetts
(Not Nominated)

Major General
Lovell Rousseau
of Kentucky

1864 Democratic National Convention

1866 National Union Convention

History of the United States Republican Party

List of Republican National Conventions

1864 United States presidential election

at The American Presidency Project

Republican Party Platform of 1864

at The American Presidency Project

Lincoln nomination acceptance letter