Virginians who are overseas can find instructions on absentee voting on the Virginia Department of Elections website for more information. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, who has held a U.S.

A new State Government was organized, under the old Virginia Constitution. A new election was ordered for representatives to compose the Virginia Legislature. This election was held ...

When there were rumors of a plot against the life of Abraham Lincoln before his 1861 inauguration, there was no official ...

Quick Facts 22 of the 66 seats in the United States Senate (with special elections) 34 seats needed for a majority, Majority party ...

Seven Illinois counties are considering leaving the state over grievances with the Chicago metropolitan area.

The art, indeed, may be said to have been introduced in 1796 to prevent his election to the Presidency ... He evolved from Jefferson's Notes on Virginia the appalling truth, that the Republican ...

Some seven Illinois counties will ask voters in the November general election if they should begin exploring the idea of ...

Here are the burning questions of Union and states' rights, John Brown at Harpers Ferry, the election of Abraham ... disastrous Union defeat at Manassas, Virginia, where both sides learn it ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress President Abraham Lincoln wins re-election ... Mary has been living since 1861. That summer they will move to the country in Derwent, Virginia.

Late in the afternoon, a Virginia State Police helicopter ... the pro-slavery Confederate forces in the US Civil War of 1861-65. The New York Times reports that some of them were chanting ...

William Henry Harrison, the first presidential candidate from Ohio, was actually born in Virginia in 1773 ... when war broke out in April 1861. He spent election day, Nov. 3, 1908, in his hometown ...

Abraham Lincoln during his 1860 presidential campaign (AI image generated by Dall-E) The Secession of Southern States (1860-1861): Following Lincoln’s election, 11 Southern states seceded from ...