Lincoln's Election
President Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln was a Kentucky born lawyer and whig representative to congress. In lincoln's first election of 1860 he faced Stephen Douglas and won the campaign. Stephen Douglas was apart of the U.S senate seat in 1858, Douglas also represented the North faction of a heavily divided Democratic party. The announcement of Lincoln’s victory signaled secession of the South states which since the beginning of the year the White House was threatening secession in the south. By the time of Lincoln's inauguration on March 4, 1861, seven states had seceded and the confederate states of the United States had been formally established with Jefferson Davis as its elected president.