Thursday, June 6, 2013

Republican State Convention

Notice is hereby given that a delegate Republican State Convention will be held at Des Moines, on Wednesday the 23d day of July A. D. 1862, for the purpose of putting in nomination a Secretary and Auditor of State, Attorney General and Register of the the State Land Office, and for the transaction of such other business as may be decreed expedient when met.

The ration of representation will be as follows, viz: One Delagate from each organized county; or One Delegate for every one hundred votes cast for Abraham Lincoln for President of the United States in 1860, and one additional Delegate for any fractional vote exceeding fifty.

Loyal citizens, regardless of former political associations, who are in favor of giving the National Administration their honest support, in a thorough and vigorous prosecution of the war for the suppression of the rebellion are invited to co-operate throughout the State.

JOHN N. DEWEY, Chairman, 5th District
SAML. F. MILLER, 1st District
W. S. DUNCAN, 2d District
JNO. D. LOCKWOOD, 3d District
W. R. SMITH, 4th District
J. H. SANDERS, 6th District
J. BUTLER, 7th District
J. SHANE, 8th District
G. W. MILLER, 9th District
L. FULLER, 10th District
R. H. TAYLOR, 11th District

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 2

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