The Whigs opened their two day national convention.  It nominated Millard Fillmore and Andrew J. Donelson as candidates for president and vice-president, thereby endorsing the earlier named American Party ticket. (By John Osborne)
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              The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1858 (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1857), 365.
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