Author: [Cleveland, Grover & Thomas A. Hendricks - Subjects]
Title: DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET. For President Grover Cleveland of New York. For Vice-President Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana
Description: (n. p.): , 1884. Buff printed paper. Broadsheet, printed recto only. 11-3/8" x 2-1/2". Modest wear to edges, light age-toning. Withal, a VG+ example from US electoral history. This a Democratic National Ticket for the Presidential Election of 1884, when Grover Cleveland, along with Vice President Thomas Hendricks, won and took office. "Hendricks remains the only Vice President whose portrait appears on U.S. paper currency. An engraved portrait of Hendricks is on the "tombstone" $10 silver certificate of 1886. The nickname for the currency note derives from the tombstone-shaped border outlining Hendricks's portrait." Other names on the ballot include: "Electors at Large: Thomas E. Powell, Americus V. Rice", "District Electors: Michael Tyan, Thomas J. Stephens, Levi G. Gould, George W. Houk, Calvin S. Brice, Thomas B. Holland, Robert McKelly, John D. Kerr, Henry T. van Fleet, Dennis Coghlin, George W. Pettit, David Armstrong, Orsamus E. Niles, Jacob J. Johnson, Daniel H. Gaumer, Jeremiah J. Sullivan, William Lawrence, Junius C. Ferrall, David L. Rockwell, Lewis P. Ohliger, Robert Blee.".

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