AT A MEETING OF THE ELECTORS OF THE TOWN OF WARREN LEGALLY WARNED AND HELD ON THE FIRST MONDAY OF NOVEMBER, ANNO DOMINI 1844, THE FOLLOWING PERSONS RECEIVED THE NUMBER OF VOTES ANNEXED TO THEIR NAMES RESPECTIVELY, FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, VIZ...
[Hartford? 1844]. Folio broadsheet, 7 3/4" x 13". Preprinted form completed in neat ink manuscript, two columns: names of electors, number of votes received. Some printing on verso, and docketed there in manuscript: "The official returns of President and Vice President Nov. 4th 1844." Old folds, else Fine.
Connecticut's popular vote for this 1844 election was 32,832 votes for the Whig Henry Clay; 29,841 votes for the Democrat James K. Polk; and 1,943 votes for the Liberty Party's James G. Birney. But the Town of Warren gave its votes to the Polk electors: Isaac Tousey, Ralph Ingersoll, and four others. Each Polk elector received eighty-eight votes.
The Clay electors, each of whom received eighty-six votes, included Clark Bissell, Charles Rockwell, Samuel Foot, and Truman Smith. Item #35380
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