{"id":1438,"date":"2016-08-30T12:26:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T12:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2016-08-30T12:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T12:29:18","slug":"lincolns-first-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/2016\/08\/30\/lincolns-first-national-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln&#8217;s First National Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2016\/08\/Lincolns-First-Telegram.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1439\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2016\/08\/Lincolns-First-Telegram-300x120.jpg\" alt=\"Lincoln's First Telegram\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2016\/08\/Lincolns-First-Telegram-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2016\/08\/Lincolns-First-Telegram.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This summer, Democrats met in Philadelphia to hold their national nominating convention. \u00a0In 1848, the Whigs did the same with\u00a0Congressman Abraham Lincoln in attendance. \u00a0Despite a long career in partisan politics, \u00a0it was Lincoln&#8217;s first &#8211;and only&#8211; direct experience at a national party convention. \u00a0Yet the story of this moment in June 1848 offers a very teachable window into Lincoln&#8217;s own rise to power as well as some key aspects concerning the general evolution of American electoral politics. \u00a0For the full story, go the &#8220;Muster&#8221; blog at the\u00a0<em>Journal of the Civil War Era:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journalofthecivilwarera.org\/2016\/07\/a-lincoln-conventioneer\/\">A.Lincoln, Conventioneer (By Matthew Pinsker)<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, Democrats met in Philadelphia to hold their national nominating convention. \u00a0In 1848, the Whigs did the same with\u00a0Congressman Abraham Lincoln in attendance. \u00a0Despite a long career in partisan politics, \u00a0it was Lincoln&#8217;s first &#8211;and only&#8211; direct experience at a national party convention. \u00a0Yet the story of this moment in June 1848 offers a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}