<Tr> <Td> Millard Fillmore </Td> <Td> Know - Nothing </Td> <Td> New York </Td> <Td> 36,195 </Td> <Td> 32.8 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Fremont </Td> <Td> Republican </Td> <Td> California </Td> <Td> 20,704 </Td> <Td> 18.8 </Td> </Tr> <P> Following California's admission to the Union, Californios (dissatisfied with inequitable taxes and land laws) and pro-slavery Southerners in lightly populated, rural Southern California attempted three times in the 1850s to achieve a separate statehood or territorial status from Northern California . The last attempt, the Pico Act of 1859, was passed by the California State Legislature, signed by the State governor John B. Weller, approved overwhelmingly by voters in the proposed Territory of Colorado and sent to Washington, D.C. with a strong advocate in Senator Milton Latham . However the secession crisis following the election of Lincoln in 1860 led to the proposal never coming to a vote . </P> <P> In 1860 California gave a small plurality of 38,733 votes to Abraham Lincoln, whose 32% of the total vote was enough to win all its electoral votes; 68% voted for the other three candidates . </P>

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