In Pennsylvania, General John W. Geary is elected governor as Republicans again dominate.

Republicans triumphed in the state and federal elections on this day.  Famous Union General John White Geary was elected as governor with a majority of just over seventeen thousand in a total vote of almost 600,000 ballots cast.  His party also retained control of the Legislature, with a majority of twenty-one to twelve in the upper house and of sixty-two to eight in the lower.  Seats for the Fortieth Congress were also decided, with Republicans taking eighteen of the twenty-four seats, an increase of three seats over the Democrats.  (By John Osborne)

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"Pennsylvania," The American Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1866 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873), 615.

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