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The Democratic Convention was held at Iowa City on the 1st of June and nominated the following ticket: Secretary of State, Josiah H. Bonney; Auditor, Joseph T. Fales; Treasurer, Morgan Reno. The resolutions indorsed the national administration and State government of Iowa, and eulogized the army engaged in the War with Mexico.

For Presidential electors the Whigs nominated Fitz Henry Warren, Wm. H. Wallace, Jesse Bowen and Stephen B. Shelledy. The Democrats nominated A. C. Dodge, Joseph Williams, Lincoln Clark and J. J. Selman. For Congress the Whigs nominated, in the First District, Daniel F. Miller; the Democrats nominated William Thompson. In the Second District, the Whigs nominated Timothy Davis, the Antislavery Party, James Dawson, and the Democrats, Shepherd Leffler. The campaign in Iowa was a vigorous one and the Democrats carried the State as usual, electing both members of Congress. The vote for Secretary of State was as follows:

The vote for President at the November election was as follows:

By throwing out the vote of Pottawattamie County the plurality of Cass over Taylor was declared to be 1,434, and his majority over Taylor and Van Buren, 308. The vote of Pottawattamie County was for Taylor 527, for Cass 42.