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(Friday, May 18, 1860, approximately 1:00 p.m. local time) — Former Representative Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was nominated President of the United States today on the third ballot at the 1860 Republican National Convention meeting at The Wigwam in Chicago.

Lincoln clinched the nomination on the third ballot after consolidating support from more delegates who had backed candidates other than U.S. Senator William H. Seward of New York.

The third ballot “corrected” vote was 349 for Lincoln and 111.5 for Seward.

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U.S. Senator Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was nominated vice president on the second ballot later today, defeating anti-slavery planter Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky 367 to 86 votes.

Lincoln-Hamlin ticket would oppose the split tickets of Northern Democrats Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and former Governor Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia and Southern Democrats Vice President John C. Breckinridge and Senator Joseph Lane of Oregon in the 1860 United States presidential election on Nov. 6.