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This ballot box was discovered in January 1858 under a woodpile in Lecompton, Kansas. It contained 1,838 fraudulent pro-Lecompton Constitution ballots. The Lecompton Constitution was created by mostly proslavery delegates under the leadership of John Calhoun. It was Calhoun's clerk, L.A. MacLean, who placed the ballots inside this box and hid it in the woodpile outside Calhoun's office in Lecompton. The history of the box is handwritten on the interior.
Creator: Star Candles
Date: between 1857 and 1858
Item Number: 436299
Call Number: 1878.11.1
KSHS Identifier: 1878.11.1
Collections - Museum
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology - Regulative & Protective - Box, Ballot
Places - Cities and towns - Lecompton
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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