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The local caucus

In the first decades of the republic, the caucus was also used at the state level, to nominate candidates in local elections. In each state representatives and senators of the party elected to the state legislature met in an assembly, called the caucus state, where the party to nominate candidates for state offices, as well as candidates representing the Congress (Senators were not elected) and presidential electors. In many homes the participation in the caucus was extended to state party leaders from various geographic areas of the state. Some caucus state party committees organized and took care of other aspects of the political machinery of the party, as election campaigns at the local level. As we have seen, often the caucus state got involved in the presidential election because the candidates had no chance of being nominated by the caucus Congress sought the investiture of the government caucus to run for president.