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The 1860 Pennsylvania gubernatorial was held on October 9, almost one month before Presidential election. Andrew Curtin of the newly formed Republican Party won the governor's mansion over Democrat Henry Donnel Foster.
Curtin would go on to become an important figure in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States. Pennsylvania's 15th governor and a strong supporter of President Abraham Lincoln, he was inaugurated on January 15, 1861. One of the first state governors to send military units to Washington, D.C. in response to Lincoln's call for help to defend the nation's capital in April of that same year, he was the eponym of Camp Curtin, which became one of the largest staging grounds for the Union Army after it opened on April 18, 1861.[1] In 1863, following the Battle of Gettysburg, Curtin led the state and nation in creating a national cemetery for the Union Army's fallen soldiers. Post-war, he led the creation of a state-funded system of more than forty soldiers' orphans' schools to educate and care for children across Pennsylvania whose fathers had been killed during the war.[2]
- ^ "A Famous War Governor: Andrew Gregg Curtin, Known as the Soldiers' Friend" (obituary). Indianapolis, Indiana: The Indianapolis Journal, front page (subscription required).
- ^ Tristan, David. "Midstate Markers: Pennsylvania's 'War Governor' Andrew Curtin." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: WHTM-TV, July 28, 2022 (retrieved online June 3, 2023).