John Bell's Constitutional Union Party served what purpose in the election of 1860?
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The 1860 constitutional union convention met in May 1860, John Bell was nominated for president and Edward Everett for vice president.
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- Bell took 12.6% of the nationwide popular vote, three states in Upper South and finished with Second-most noteworthy vote total in each remaining slave express that held a famous vote.
- Crittenden and other constitutional Unionists after the election unsuccessfully sought to prevent a civil war with the Crittenden Compromise and Peace Conference of 1861.
- Following the Battle of Fort Sumter, Bell declared his support for the Confederacy but many other constitutional unionists remained loyal to the Union throughout the American Civil war.
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