Talk:1864 United States presidential election in Kansas

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Help With Messed up References

I need so help with the two references I recently added to the article yesterday. I added two sources yesterday to mention why there is a person named E. Cheeseborough on the ballots in Kansas. However, after I finished editing the article, I noticed that the sources weren't showing up on the article. Could I please have some help cleaning up this mess? --JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 19:00, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thank you Sonicsoundtracks1 for fixing the linking mistake. --JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 17:49, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Gene Wilson for fixing the linking mistake for the 1864 election statics. When I added the statics of the 1864 US Presidential Election, I must have accidentally deleted the URL part of the link when I copied and pasted it from the 1860 election in Vermont article and deleted the URL accidentally while doing so. --JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 14:15, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ellsworth Cheeseborough

I reverted what I assume was a good-faith edit related to this candidate, whom some tertiary sources identify as an independent write-in candidate for president. In fact, original election returns published by the State of Kansas as well as secondary histories like Frank W. Blackmar's Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History [...] correctly identify Cheeseborough as a candidate for the Electoral College on the National Union ticket. Cheeseborough died prior to the election and was replaced on the ticket by W. F. Cloud, but some ballots listing Cheeseborough as a National Union elector were still cast (mostly by Union Army soldiers serving in Kansas regiments) accounting for the small total for him.^[1] The confusion seems to have arisen from the fact that, while we are accustomed to thinking of the popular vote as a tally of the votes cast for a party's nominee for president, the legal reality is that people are voting for lists of electors pledged to support that nominee. Nineteenth century election returns tally votes as cast for individual electors, rather than assigning those votes to the presidential nominee, which is why you see small differences in the number of votes cast for electors running on the same ticket.

Several primary and secondary sources that examine this issue in more detail are included in the article. If anyone else has ideas about how to further improve the article, I'm all ears! Nathaniel Greene (talk) 13:17, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

^ Blackmar, Frank W. (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. (Volume 1). Chicago: Standard Publishing Company. p. 295.

[1] Blackmar, Frank W. (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. (Volume 1). Chicago: Standard Publishing Company. p. 295.

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