Reelection is when someone runs for election after already being elected once, and already having served out their first term. Example, in the USA: Presidents run for reelection once, four years after being elected for the first time. Senators run for reelection six years after being elected for the first time, although some states do not let their Senators run for reelection.
In Morgan County, resolutions were adopted in fervent support of the war and in wrathful denunciation of the "treasonable assaults of guerrillas at home; party demagogues;" slanderers of the President, defenders of the butchery at the Alamo, traducers of the heroism at San Jacinto.
Some eastern Republicans even favored the reelection of Douglas in 1858, since he led the opposition to the administration's push for the Lecompton Constitution which would have admitted Kansas as a slave state.
Lincoln was the leader of the "moderates" regarding Reconstruction policy, and usually was opposed by the Radical Republicans led by Thaddeus Stevens in the House and Charles Sumner and Benjamin Wade in the Senate (though he cooperated with those men on most other issues).
Two years later, he was elected Arkansas's attorney general, and in 1978 he won the Arkansas governorship, becoming the nation's youngest governor.
Defeated for reelection in 1980, he regained the governorship in 1982 and retained it in two subsequent elections.
Benefiting from a basically healthy economy, he handily won reelection in Nov., 1996, garnering 49% of the vote against Republican candidate Bob Dole Dole, Bob (Robert Joseph Dole), 1923–, American political leader, b.
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