The Maine Republican Party met in Bangor with 781 delegates from 320 towns across the state.  The convention endorsed the national candidates chosen in Chicago and nominated Israel Washburn as their gubernatorial candidate.  Both men were victorious in November.  (By John Osborne)

The split in the Democratic Party in Alabama became clear when two separate conventions were held in Montgomery to nominate delegates for the upcoming reconvening of the national convention in Baltimore.  The official meeting nominated delegates for Baltimore. The other more radical gathering led by William L. Yancey, voted delegates for Baltimore but authorized them to withdraw to a seccession convention in Richmond if need be.  (By John Osborne) 

Some considered Horatio Seymour a compromise candidate for the Democratic nomination at the reconvening convention in Baltimore.  Seymour wrote a letter to the editor of his local newspaper declaring unreservedly that he was not candidate for either spot on the ticket.   He went on to support Stephen Douglas for the nomination and in the election.  He was the Democratic candidate 1868 and lost to Ulysses Grant.  (By John Osborne)

Samuel Delucenna Ingham, veteran Democratic politician and Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson died at his home in Trenton, New Jersey, aged eighty.  Born in Pennsylvania, Ingham had been a state legislator, secretary of the Commonwealth, and a U.S. Congressman before Jackson named him in 1829.  He was one of the cabinet members who famously resigned over Peggy Eaton and the "Petticoat Affair" in June 1831.  (By John Osborne)