A long-time Whig leader, he ran for his best-known office in 1860 when he was the Vice Presidential candidate of the Constitutional Union ticket with John Bell.  
This man lost a campaign for re-election  as governor by a single vote to Marcus Morton.  He was compelled to resign from his Senate seat after only serving 15 months of his term, having outraged his constituents by being absent during the vote on the Kansas-Nebraska Act. After the Hungarian uprising against the Austrians, he wrote the Hulsemann letter at the invitation of Daniel Webster.  He allowed black students to take the entrance exams during his time as President of Harvard, and before going into politics he served as Harvard's first Eliot professor of Greek literature, a position which he qualified for by going to Gottingen and receiving the first Ph. D. ever awarded to an American.  A long-time Whig leader, he ran for his best-known office in 1860 when he was the Vice Presidential candidate of the Constitutional Union ticket with John Bell.  FTP, name this American who rallied support for the Union cause with his many orations, including a lengthy one on November 19, 1863 at Gettysburg.
This man lost a campaign for re-election  as governor by a single vote to Marcus Morton.  
Edward Everett