Events from the year 1857 in the United States. President: Franklin Pierce (D-New Hampshire) (until March 4) James Buchanan (D-Pennsylvania) (starting...

The 1856–57 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification...

November 4, 1857. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives. 236 representatives were elected in 31 states and the pending...

The Panic of 1857 was a financial crisis in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy...

county equivalents in the United States. The 50 states of the United States are divided into 3,007 political subdivisions of states called counties. Two...

The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral...

which was withdrawn in 1857; the 1857 half-cent coin was worth approximately 16 cents in 2023 dollars. In 1990, United States Representative Jim Kolbe...

related to 1857. 1857 (MDCCCLVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar...

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the late 1850s, its main political rival has been...

The term Know-Nothing Riot has been used to refer to a number of political uprisings of the Know Nothing Party in the United States of the mid-19th century...