1863 Boston mayoral election

December 14, 1863


Candidate	Frederic W. Lincoln Jr.	Thomas P. Rich	Samuel R. Spinney
Party	Republican	Democratic	Workingmen's
Popular vote	6,206	2,142	613
Percentage	69.26%	23.90%	6.84%

Mayor before election

Frederic W. Lincoln Jr.
Republican

Elected Mayor

Frederic W. Lincoln Jr.
Republican

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Springfield

The 1863 Boston mayoral election was held on December 14, 1863^[1] and saw Frederic W. Lincoln Jr. reelected to a fifth overall term.

Nominations

The Republican Party renominated Mayor Lincoln. Thomas P. Rich was nominated by the Democratic Party. Breakaway members of the Democratic Party formed the "Workingmen's" ticket and nominated Samuel R. Spinney.^[2]

Results

1863 Boston mayoral election^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Frederic W. Lincoln Jr. (incumbent)	6,206	69.22
	Democratic	Thomas P. Rich	2,142	23.89
	Workingmen's	Samuel R. Spinney	613	6.84
	Others	Scattering	5	0.06
Turnout			8,966

Results by ward

^[3]	Lincoln (Republican)		Rich (Democratic)		Spinney (Workingmen's)		Others		Top-2 margin (+/− if won by R/D)		Cumulative vote
Ward	Vote	%	Vote	%	Vote	%	Vote	%	Vote	%	Vote
1st	354	45.38	348	44.62	78	10.00	0	0.00	+ 6	+ 0.77	780
2nd	649	74.94	172	19.86	45	5.20	0	0.00	+ 477	+ 55.08	866
3rd	243	45.59	260	48.78	21	3.94	0	0.00	− 17	− 3.19	533
4th	420	83.83	78	15.57	3	0.60	0	0.00	+ 342	+ 68.26	501
5th	520	83.20	91	14.56	13	2.08	1	0.16	+ 429	+ 68.64	625
6th	706	84.15	122	14.54	11	1.31	0	0.00	+ 584	+ 69.61	839
7th	188	40.43	275	59.14	2	0.43	0	0.00	− 87	− 18.71	465
8th	455	75.58	134	22.26	13	2.16	0	0.00	+ 321	+ 53.32	602
9th	480	81.49	83	14.09	26	4.41	0	0.00	+ 397	+ 77.81	589
10th	421	67.25	150	23.96	55	8.79	0	0.00	+ 271	+ 43.29	626
11th	1,145	64.22	235	16.58	33	2.33	4	0.28	+ 910	+ 64.22	1,417
12th	625	55.65	185	16.47	313	27.87	0	0.00	+ 312	+ 27.78	1,123
Total	6,206	69.22	2,142	23.89	613	6.84	5	0.06	+ 4,064	+ 45.33	8,966

References

^ A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822-1908, Roxbury, 1846-1867, Charlestown, 1847-1873 and of the Selectmen of Boston, 1634-1822: Also of Various Other Town and Municipal Officers. City of Boston Printing Department. 1909. p. 53. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
^ "The Municipal Election". Boston Evening Transcript. December 9, 1863. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b "Municipal Election". Boston Evening Transcript. December 15, 1853. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

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Reconstruction era

Participants

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Elections

Presidential	1864 DNC National Union Convention Radical Democracy Party 1868 DNC RNC 1872 DNC RNC Liberal Republican Party Straight-Out Democratic Party Victoria Woodhull 1876 DNC RNC Greenback Convention Prohibition Convention Electoral Commission Compromise of 1877
U.S. Senate	1864–65 1866–67 1868–69 1870–71 1872–73 1874–75 1876–77
U.S. House	1864–65 1866–67 1868–69 1870–71 1872–73 1874–75 1876–77
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U.S. elections	1864 1866 1868 1870 1872 1874 1876

Key events

Prelude	American Indian Wars Slavery in the United States A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) The Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women (1838) Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1839) Seneca Falls Convention (1848) National Women's Rights Convention (1850) American Civil War Confiscation Act of 1861 Confiscation Act of 1862 District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act (1862) Militia Act of 1862
1863	Emancipation Proclamation General Order No. 143 Lincoln's presidential Reconstruction Ten Percent Plan National Bank Act Women's Loyal National League New York City draft riots 1863 State of the Union Address
1864	Wade–Davis Bill 1864 elections 1864 State of the Union Address
1865	13th Amendment Second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln Address Black Codes Special Field Orders No. 15 Freedmen's Bureau Freedmen's Bureau bills Confederates surrender at Appomattox Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Shaw University New Departure 1865 State of the Union Address Founding of the Ku Klux Klan
1866	Civil Rights Act of 1866 Memphis riots of 1866 New Orleans massacre of 1866 Swing Around the Circle Southern Homestead Act of 1866 Fort Smith Conference and Cherokee Reconstruction Treaty of 1866 Choctaw and Chickasaw Treaty of Washington of 1866 Tennessee readmitted to Union Petition for Universal Freedom National Labor Union Ex parte Garland Ex parte Milligan Slave Kidnapping Act of 1866 1866 elections
1867	Tenure of Office Act Command of Army Act Indian Peace Commission Knights of the White Camelia Pulaski riot Reconstruction Acts Reconstruction military districts Constitutional conventions of 1867 Habeas Corpus Act 1867 Peonage Act of 1867 First impeachment inquiry against Andrew Johnson 1867 State of the Union Address
1868	14th Amendment Second impeachment inquiry against Andrew Johnson Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Timeline Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson Impeachment managers investigation Articles of impeachment Arkansas readmitted to Union Florida readmitted to Union North Carolina readmitted to Union South Carolina readmitted to Union Louisiana readmitted to Union Alabama readmitted to Union Opelousas massacre Fourth Reconstruction Act Georgia v. Stanton 1868 elections 1868 State of the Union Address
1869	National Woman Suffrage Association American Woman Suffrage Association Alabama Claims Annexation of Santo Domingo Board of Indian Commissioners Public Credit Act of 1869 Black Friday (1869) Ex parte McCardle First transcontinental railroad 1869 State of the Union Address
1870	15th Amendment Enforcement Act of 1870 Justice Department Naturalization Act of 1870 Kirk-Holden War Shoffner Act 1870 elections 1870 State of the Union Address
1871	Ku Klux Klan hearings First Enforcement Act of 1871 Second Enforcement Act of 1871 Alcorn State University Meridian race riot of 1871 Treaty of Washington New York custom house ring Civil service commission United States expedition to Korea 1871 State of the Union Address
1872	General Mining Act of 1872 Crédit Mobilier Scandal Modoc War Star route scandal Salary Grab Act Amnesty Act 1872 elections 1872 State of the Union Address
1873	Panic of 1873 Colfax Massacre Timber Culture Act Slaughter-House Cases Virginius Affair Coinage Act of 1873 Long Depression Comstock laws 1873 State of the Union Address
1874	Brooks–Baxter War Battle of Liberty Place Coushatta Massacre Red River War Timber Culture Act White League Election Massacre of 1874 Vicksburg Riot of 1874 Black Hills Gold Rush Sanborn incident Anti-Moiety Acts 1874 elections 1874 State of the Union Address
1875	United States v. Cruikshank Civil Rights Act of 1875 Red Shirts Mississippi Plan Clifton Riot of 1875 Yazoo City Riot of 1875 Specie Payment Resumption Act Whiskey Ring Wheeler Compromise Delano affair Pratt & Boyd 1875 State of the Union Address
1876	Hamburg Massacre South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 Ellenton massacre Great Sioux War of 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn United States v. Reese Trader post scandal Centennial Exposition Cattellism Safe burglary conspiracy 1876 elections 1876 State of the Union Address
1877	Electoral Commission Compromise of 1877 Nez Perce War Desert Land Act Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Aftermath	Posse Comitatus Act (1878) Civil Rights Cases (1883) United States v. Harris (1883) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Williams v. Mississippi (1898) Wilmington insurrection of 1898 Giles v. Harris (1903) Disenfranchisement

Aspects

Historiography	Bibliography of the Reconstruction Era James Shepherd Pike The Prostrate State (1874) James Bryce The American Commonwealth (1888) Claude Bowers The Tragic Era (1929) Columbia University John Burgess Walter Lynwood Fleming Dunning School William Archibald Dunning Charles A. Beard Howard K. Beale W. E. B. Du Bois Black Reconstruction in America (1935) C. Vann Woodward Joel Williamson William R. Brock American Crisis (1963) John Hope Franklin From Slavery to Freedom (1947) After Slavery (1965) Leon Litwack Been in the Storm So Long (1979) Eric Foner Reconstruction (1988) Kenneth M. Stampp Steven Hahn A Nation Under Our Feet (2003) The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (2019)
Memory	Winslow Homer A Visit from the Old Mistress (1876) Thomas Dixon Jr. The Leopard's Spots (1902) The Clansman (1905) D. W. Griffith The Birth of a Nation (1915) United Daughters of the Confederacy Gone with the Wind (1939) David W. Blight Race and Reunion (2001)
Legacy	Women's suffrage in the United States Labor history of the United States Gilded Age Jim Crow era Civil rights movement American frontier
Other topics	History of the United States (1865–1918) African American founding fathers of the United States Industrialization Suffrage Habeas corpus Race (human categorization) White supremacy Paramilitary Forty acres and a mule Reconstruction Treaties Whitecapping

Category

Nominations

Results

Results by ward

See also

References