10. National Election Ticket, California, 1864

This election ticket from California is from the 1864 presidential election, when Republican incumbent President Abraham Lincoln faced Democratic challenger Gen. George B. McClellan—Lincoln’s former commander of the army whom he relieved of duty in 1862. The Republican Party decided to choose a new running mate for Lincoln, and they nominated Democrat Andrew Johnson (Tennessee) whose Southern sympathies were tempered by his declarations of support for the Union. All of the states still in the Union in 1864 had flyers like this one which listed not only the national candidates, but the state electors who could be counted on to cast an electoral vote for the Union Party ticket