U.S. presidential election, 1872 |
| Presidential Candidate |
Electoral Vote |
Popular Vote |
Pct |
Party |
Running Mate
(Electoral Votes) |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant of Illinois (W) |
286 |
3,597,132 |
|
Republican |
Henry C. Wilson of Massachusetts (286) |
| Horace Greeley of New
York |
3 (see below) |
2,834,125 |
|
Democrat-Liberal Republican |
Benjamin Gratz Brown of Missouri |
Benjamin Gratz Brown of Missouri(18)
Thomas Andrews Hendricks of Indiana (42)
Charles J. Jenkins of
Georgia (2)
David Davis of Illinois (1) |
|
|
|
Benjamin Gratz Brown of Missouri (47)
Nathaniel P. Banks of Massachusetts (1)
George W. Julian of
Indiana (5)
Alfred H. Colquitt of
Georgia (5)
John M. Palmer of Illinois (3)
Thomas E. Bramlette
of Kentucky (3)
William S.
Groesbeck of Ohio (1)
Willis B. Machen of
Kentucky (1) |
| Other elections: 1860, 1864, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1880, 1884 |
| Source: U.S. Office of the Federal Register
|
Notes:
Incumbent president Ulysses S. Grant was renominated by the
Republican Party, but an influential group of dissident Republicans split from the party and formed the new Liberal Republican Party, which
nominated New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley for President (over former ambassador to Britain Charles Francis Adams), and Governor B. Gratz Brown of Missouri for
Vice President. The Democrats, seeing their only chance for victory in union with the Liberal Republicans, followed by nominating
Greeley and Brown at their own convention. Due to widespread internal dissention in both the Democrats and Liberal Republicans,
Grant easily defeated Greeley.
On November 29, 1872, after the
popular vote but before the electoral college was convened,
Greeley died. As a result, electors voted for a number of different
candidates for both President and
Vice President, mostly for
Brown, the Democratic party's Vice Presidential nominee.
Despite the absence of life, Horace Greeley still received three
electoral votes, but these votes were disallowed by Congress. Vice President Henry Wilson died November 22, 1875.
See also: President of the United
States, U.S. presidential election,
1872, History of the United States (1865-1918)
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