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Librería: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, Estados Unidos de America
16th president of the United States. Partly-printed AD, 2pp (recto and verso), 7 3/4" X 13", Appalonia Precinct, IL, 1840 November. Near fine. Minor, even age toning. Lincoln ran for elector in the William H. Harrison vs. Henry Clay presidential election of 1840. He failed to get elected as elector, though the Whig candidate Harrison won. In this poll book leaf, headlined (partly printed) "Poll Book for Appalonia Precinct, Nov. 1840," the registered voters names run down the left margin (28 on recto, 4 on verso) -- all penned in the same bold hand, no doubt an election official. A printed column running across the top, labeled "For Presidential Electors," lists ten elector candidates -- the last being Lincoln, whose name is misspelled "Abram Lincoln." (Lincoln colleague, legislator and future Union general John A. McClernand, 1812-1900, is also listed.) The five Whig candidates seem to have performed poorly in this particular precinct, gathering far fewer votes than the five Democrat candidates. Rare relic of one of Lincoln's first political disappointments at age thirty-one. A choice example in superb condition.