The Vermont Republican Convention met at Rutland and nominated Erastus Fairbanks for governor and ratified the choices of the Chicago Convention. Fairbanks had served as governor between 1852-1853 and was again elected. He provided strong leadership in the provision of Union troops in the first months of the Civil War. He died in 1864. (By John Osborne)
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Francis Vincent, Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register.... 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860 (Philadelphia: Francis Vincent, 1860), 597.
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