The Constitutional Union Party meets in its national convention in Baltimore, Maryland

The Constitutional Union Party held its first and only national party convention in Baltimore, Maryland.  On the second ballot, on the second day of the meeting, it nominated John Bell of Tennessee for President and Edward Everett of Massachusetts as Vice-President. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 198.
Thomas G. Mitchell, Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007), 148
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