Presidential Election Prediction by J. K. Duncan and G.T. Beauregard
This item is a presidential election prediction by Johnson Kelly Duncan, Chief Engineer of the Louisiana State Board of Public Works, and Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Superintendent of Construction for the New Orleans Custom House. Duncan predicted Stephen A. Douglas to win a majority of the 33 states; Beauregard predicted John C. Breckinridge to win by a slimmer margin. Both were wrong, as Abraham Lincoln was elected President. From 1853 to 1860, Beauregard was superintendent engineer of the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans. Less than a year later, as a General for the Confederate Army, Beauregard ordered the first shots of the American Civil War to be fired.
Presidential Election Prediction by J.K. Duncan and G.T. Beauregard, dated 1860. National Archives Identifier: 6016137
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