what party was lincoln affiliated with?
Illinois Republican Party Republican Party National Union Party Whig Party
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 After Lincoln 's landslide re @-@ election in early November 1864 on a platform advocating passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to abolish slavery altogether , Booth devoted increasing energy and money to his kidnap plot . He assembled a loose @-@ knit band of Southern sympathizers , including David Herold , George Atzerodt , Lewis Powell ( also known as Lewis Payne or Paine ) , and John Surratt , a rebel agent . They began to meet routinely at the boarding house of Surratt 's mother , Mrs. Mary Surratt . 

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 The College Republicans quickly pursued a strategy of sending college students to vote in their home districts and registering others to vote where they schooled to swing closely contested districts . This strategy was successfully implemented for the 1900 presidential election between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan , helping win Bryan 's home state of Nebraska for McKinley . 

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 Falwell claimed that the grassroots efforts of the Moral Majority — registering millions of voters , informing the public , and using the media — had been a significant factor in the election of President Ronald Reagan . By 1982 they had a budget of $ 1 million and millions of volunteers . Around the same time , gay men were being stricken with AIDS , desperate for money for research and services . Spokesmen for the Moral Majority connected it to God 's will , asserting the general public needed protection from " the gay plague " , and warned , " If homosexuals are not stopped they will infect the entire nation and America will be destroyed . " 

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 The Democrats held their convention the next month in New York City . The convention soon deadlocked , and after 103 ballots , the delegates finally agreed on a compromise candidate , John W. Davis , with Charles W. Bryan nominated for vice president . The Democrats ' hopes were buoyed when Robert M. La Follette Sr. , a Republican Senator from Wisconsin , split from the GOP to form a new Progressive Party . Many believed that the split in the Republican party , like the one in 1912 , would allow a Democrat to win the presidency . 

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 Lincoln 's first romantic interest was Ann Rutledge , whom he met when he first moved to New Salem ; by 1835 , they were in a relationship but not formally engaged . She died at the age of 22 on August 25 , 1835 , most likely of typhoid fever . In the early 1830s , he met Mary Owens from Kentucky when she was visiting her sister . 
