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Our last episode! Join Mark A. Lempke as the Also-Rans says goodbye.
For the first time, we'll look at a man who didn't even earn his party's nomination. In 1860, the Republican Party met in a gigantic wigwam in Chicago to choose their nominee for president. The smart money was on a conscientious antislavery man and the party's most prominent public figure: New York's William H. Seward. The public was shocked when delegates instead chose an obscure man who was most famous for losing a Senate race: Abraham Lincoln. Instead of being the man who led the...
The Also-Rans
Our last episode! Join Mark A. Lempke as the Also-Rans says goodbye.
