Nor has any president sought to have the election postponed because of a crisis. The election of 1864 went forward despite the Civil War, as did the election of 1944 despite World War II.
He was equally ineffective in that arena, garnering only 21 electoral votes versus Lincoln's 212 in the 1864 presidential election. He later served as a single-term governor of New Jersey.
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