Zoom the image with the mouse
#MA1979B
1864 Ohio Union Presidential Ticket for President, Abraham Lincoln
$795.00
Share:
Look at the top of this ticket and you'll find a ghost of Election Day 1864: "Richland County" struck through in pencil, "Hamilton" written above it by hand. Someone needed tickets for Hamilton County voters, grabbed stock meant for Richland County, and corrected it on the spot before it went out to the Hamilton County polls.
This is a genuine "straight ticket" — the kind party committees printed and handed out before secret ballots existed. A voter took the ticket for his party and dropped it whole into the poll box, so everyone at the polling place knew exactly how he'd voted. At the top, a woodcut of Liberty stands ringed in stars, helmet marked "LIBERTY," gripping a sword marked "UNION," bold campaign imagery marked by the Civil War. Below her: Abraham Lincoln of Illinois for President, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee for Vice President, followed by the full slate of twenty Ohio electors pledged to cast their votes for the Union ticket.
The stakes behind this slip of paper were enormous. Lincoln was fighting for a second term in the middle of the Civil War, running as the Union Party's candidate against former Union general George McClellan. No president had won re-election since Andrew Jackson in 1832, and many doubted Lincoln could break that streak with the war still raging. On November 8, 1864, tickets like this one helped him do it.
The horizontal creases running across the sheet tell their own story — folded down small enough to perhaps ride in a voter's coat pocket on the way to cast it. Between the fold lines and the hand-corrected county name, this is a genuine one-of-a-kind survivor: no other ticket carries this exact trace of Lincoln’s last Election Day.
Own a piece of the 1864 election — and a small, personal record of the people who carried it to the polls
Look at the top of this ticket and you'll find a ghost of Election Day 1864: "Richland County" struck through in pencil, "Hamilton" written above it by hand. Someone needed tickets for Hamilton County voters, grabbed stock meant for Richland County, and corrected it on the spot before it went out to the Hamilton County polls.
This is a genuine "straight ticket" — the kind party committees printed and handed out before secret ballots existed. A voter took the ticket for his party and dropped it whole into the poll box, so everyone at the polling place knew exactly how he'd voted. At the top, a woodcut of Liberty stands ringed in stars, helmet marked "LIBERTY," gripping a sword marked "UNION," bold campaign imagery marked by the Civil War. Below her: Abraham Lincoln of Illinois for President, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee for Vice President, followed by the full slate of twenty Ohio electors pledged to cast their votes for the Union ticket.
The stakes behind this slip of paper were enormous. Lincoln was fighting for a second term in the middle of the Civil War, running as the Union Party's candidate against former Union general George McClellan. No president had won re-election since Andrew Jackson in 1832, and many doubted Lincoln could break that streak with the war still raging. On November 8, 1864, tickets like this one helped him do it.
The horizontal creases running across the sheet tell their own story — folded down small enough to perhaps ride in a voter's coat pocket on the way to cast it. Between the fold lines and the hand-corrected county name, this is a genuine one-of-a-kind survivor: no other ticket carries this exact trace of Lincoln’s last Election Day.
Own a piece of the 1864 election — and a small, personal record of the people who carried it to the polls
Related Items
Most Orders Ship
within 1 Business Day
90 Day Return Policy
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Earn Reward Points
for FREE Stamps & More