The 1867 U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania, voted on by the state legislature, was held on January 15, 1867. Simon Cameron was elected to the Senate for the third time; he had been chosen in 1845 and in 1857. Cameron and Governor Andrew Curtin each led a faction of Republicans and had clashed as early as 1855. Cameron tried to block Curtin from the party nomination for governor in 1860, while Curtin attempted to get Cameron excluded from Abraham Lincoln's cabinet; each failed. With the Republicans holding a majority in the 1867 legislature, the battle was for the party's endorsement, which Thaddeus Stevens and Galusha Grow also sought. The party caucus chose Cameron, who then defeated incumbent Edgar Cowan, the Democratic Party nominee. Cowan never again held office; Curtin later served in Congress as a Democrat. Cameron remained in the Senate until he resigned in 1877 to allow his son to take the seat. The Cameron political machine dominated Pennsylvania politics for a half century.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1567:
The siege of Inabayama Castle, the final battle in Oda Nobunaga's campaign to conquer Mino Province, began; it culminated in a decisive victory for Nobunaga. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Inabayama_Castle
1848:
An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad foreman Phineas Gage; his survival and recovery influenced 19th-century discussion of psychology and neuroscience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
1919:
The Boston police strike ended after four days of rule by the state militia, the deaths of nine people, and accusations that striking officers were "agents of Lenin". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_police_strike
2005:
A software bug caused a simulated pandemic in the online video game World of Warcraft, serving as a model for epidemiologists to understand how human interaction influences disease outbreaks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
unseat: 1. (transitive) 2. To dislodge or remove (someone) from a seat, especially on horseback. 3. (figurative) 4. To remove (someone) from an office or position, especially a political one; to dethrone. 5. To cause (something) to be removed or replaced in its role; to displace, to overturn. 6. To upset the composure of (someone); to astound, to shock, to unsettle. 7. (intransitive, technical) To come off or out of a seat. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unseat
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world. Individuality is cherished and nurtured, because, in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others. --Robin Wall Kimmerer https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robin_Wall_Kimmerer