Elections in the Gilded Age

Jeff Broxmeyer, an expert on 19th-century politics, is taking us back to who got the vote—and how—during an infamous era that embraced a creative intertwining of capitalism and party politics. In the Gilded Age, party leaders found incredibly novel ways to become wealthy. Control over political property and political offices was everything.

As we enter the final innings of our modern election season, let’s go back and uncover how the Gilded Age’s most infamous elections worked and how politicians expected to (gasp!) profit from their political work.

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