1852 United States presidential election in Georgia

1852 United States presidential election in Georgia

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Nominee Franklin Pierce Winfield Scott Daniel Webster
Party Democratic Whig Know Nothing
Home state New Hampshire New Jersey Massachusetts
Running mate William R. King William A. Graham Charles J. Jenkins
Electoral vote 10 0 0
Popular vote 40,516 16,660 5,324
Percentage 64.70% 26.60% 8.50%

President before election

Millard Fillmore
Whig

Elected President

Franklin Pierce
Democratic

The 1852 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 2, 1852, as part of the 1852 United States presidential election. Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Georgia voted for the Democratic candidate, Franklin Pierce, over Commanding General Winfield Scott, the nominee of the Whig Party, and Senator Daniel Webster. Having been denied the Whig nomination at the party's 1852 National Convention, Webster was placed on the ballot without permission by a group of former Whigs, known as the Know Nothings, but died of natural causes shortly before the election.[1] Pierce won Georgia by a margin of 38.10%.

  1. ^ Ogg, Frederic Austin (1914). Daniel Webster. p. 407.

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