Seth Kaller, Inc.

Inspired by History

Elections

ElectionTo celebrate this historic election season we have put together a unique collection of documents that reflect the history of our democracy and the election process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
# Article Title
1 "I deserve your support...."
2 A Broadside Critical of Andrew Johnson’s Southern Sympathies
3 A Federalist Senator Explains His Switch to Jefferson in 1800
4 Alexander Stephens, Future Confederate Vice President, Rants Against Congress Refunding Andrew Jackson’s War of 1812 Fine
5 An 1864 Campaign Broadside Aimed At Moderate Democrats
6 An Early Lincoln Campaign Biography
7 Charles Sumner Discusses the Emerging Duty of the United States in Promoting Human Rights & World Peace Evoking the Declaration of Independence and Championing Louis Kossuth and his Exploits
8 Counting the Vote in 1876 – Florida’s First Election Fiasco
9 Declaration Signer Robert Morris Writes to his Business Partner Three Months Before Entering Debtor's Prison: "I Have Not Yet Done With You"
10 Evidence Used in Robert Morris’s Bankruptcy Trial
11 Former President Franklin Pierce Urges His Young Nephew Studying at Princeton:“Do Not for a Day Relax Your Labor”
12 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Accepts the Presidential Nomination
13 Frederick A. Aiken Urging Frémont to Run Against Lincoln
14 George B. McClellan’s 1864 Presidential Aspirations Are Mocked
15 George McClellan: War Candidate Running on a Peace Platform
16 Harrison Gray Otis On The Infamous Hartford Convention
17 Hawaii Statehood - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
18 Jackie Robinson Reflects on the Importance of “the Negro Vote” in Nixon’s Loss to Kennedy
19 John F. Kennedy Seeks to Censure a Priest
20 Republican Executive Congressional Committee Prepares for the Chicago Convention and the Election of 1860
21 Taking the Copper-Heads to Task in 1864:“Another Rebel Raid (on the Ballot Box) repulsed with great slaughter…”
22 Theodore Roosevelt Aghast that Americans seem “completely taken in” by Wilson
23 Theodore Roosevelt and Family Sacrifice in World War I
24 Theodore Roosevelt Keeps Lincoln Alive Against the Party Machine
25 Warren G. Harding’s Return to Normalcy – and Isolationism – after World War I
26 William Beach Lawrence, Discontent with Gilded Age Presidential Politics and the Influence of “the negro vote”
27 “A Revolution in the Currency”: Colonial Massachusetts Silver Specie Petition