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ing been made by the Electoral College, the choice devolved upon the tatives. A choice was made on the first ballot, which was as follows: t, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Misire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont-13 States; JacksonMississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee-Delaware, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia-4 States.

aving received a majority of the votes of the Electoral College, the penohnson Vice-President, who received 33 votes; Francis Granger received 16.

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1848 30 290 Whig. Zachary Taylor..... 15 1,360, 101 163 Milla Democratic Lewis Cass.. 15 1,220,544 127 Wm. 291,263 Chas

Free Soil...Martin Van Buren..

1852 31 296 Democratic Franklin Pierce.. 27 1,601,474 254 Wm. Whig.. Winfield Scott.. Free Dem.. John P. Hale...

1856 31 296 Democratic James Buchanan.

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Republican. John C. Fremont.. 11 1,341,264 114 Wm.
American.. Millard Fillmore... 1

1860 33 303 Republican. Abraham Lincoln.. 17
Democratic. J. C. Breckinridge.. 11
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Ind. Dem... S. A. Douglas...

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1864 36 314 Republican. Abraham Lincoln.. 22 2,216,067 212 Andr Democratic Geo. B. McClellan.. 3 1,808,725 21 G. H

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Eleven States did not vote, viz.: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia sissippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia." †Three States did not vote, viz.: Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia.

Three electoral votes of Georgia cast for Horace Greeley, and the vote and Louisiana, 8, cast for U. S. Grant, were rejected. If all had been inclu the electoral vote would have been 300 for U. S. Grant, and 66 for opposing c

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abitants of Alaska and the Indian Territory (both unorganized as yet) in the above total. The census of Alaska in 1880 showed: White, 392; intermarriages between the whites and natives), 1,683; Aleuts, 1,960; dians, 8,655; total, 30,178.

ritory is estimated to contain 60,000 to 75,000 inhabitants.

luded in the census in each State and Territory are those reckoned as de of tribal organizations. Indians not taxed are by law excluded from mates of their numbers vary widely-from 200,000 to 350,000 (the latter he census of 1870), while the latest census or estimate of the Indian rted in 1881 to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, gives 246,417 Indians, The whole population of the United States exceeds 50,500,000, innd Alaska.

olumn (from want of space elsewhere) have been reckoned 148 Japanese.

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White, 591,531; Colored, 210,994, including 195 Indians, and

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81; Colored, 97,513, including 75, 132 Chinese, and 16,277 Indians.

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91,126; Colored, 3,201, including 612 Chinese, and 154 Indians.

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9,007 125,382 New Haven...... 121,257 156,523 Windham... 3,727 52,044 New London 66,570 73,152

610,769; Colored, 11,931, including 255 Indians, and 123 Chinese.

36,099 35,589 Tolland ...........

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