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Presidential elections were held in theUnited States on November 5, 1872. IncumbentPresidentUlysses S. Grant, theRepublican nominee, easily defeatedDemocratic-endorsedLiberal Republican nomineeHorace Greeley.
Grant was unanimously re-nominated at the1872 Republican National Convention, but his intra-party opponents organized the Liberal Republican Party and held their own convention. The1872 Liberal Republican convention nominated Greeley, a New York newspaper publisher, and wrote a platform calling forcivil service reform and an end toReconstruction.Democratic Party leaders believed that their only hope of defeating Grant was to unite around Greeley, and the1872 Democratic National Convention nominated the Liberal Republican ticket.
Despite the union between the Liberal Republicans and Democrats, Greeley proved to be an ineffective campaigner and Grant remained widely popular. Grant decisively won re-election, carrying 31 of the 37 states, including severalSouthern states that would not again vote Republican until the 20th century. Grant was the last incumbent to win a second consecutive term untilWilliam McKinley's victory in the1900 presidential election,[c] and hispopular vote margin of 11.8% was the largest margin between1856 and1904.
On November 29, 1872, after the popular vote was counted, but before the Electoral College cast its votes, Greeley died. As a result, electors previously committed to Greeley voted for four candidates for president and eight candidates forvice president. The election of 1872 also remains the only instance in U.S. history in which a major presidential candidate who won electoral votes died during the election process. This election set the record for the longest Republican popular vote win streak in American history, four elections, a record that was matched by the same party in1908. In terms of electoral votes, it was improved with a fifth and sixth consecutive victory in1876 and1880. Grant became the only president to serve two full, consecutive terms betweenAndrew Jackson (1829–1837) andWoodrow Wilson (1913–1921), and was the first and only Republican to serve two full terms untilDwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961).[d]
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At the convention the Republicans nominatedPresidentUlysses S. Grant for re-election, but nominatedSenatorHenry Wilson fromMassachusetts for vice president instead of the incumbentSchuyler Colfax, although both were implicated in theCredit Mobilier scandal which erupted two months after the Republican convention. Others, who had grown weary of the corruption of the Grant administration, bolted to form theLiberal Republican Party.
In the hope of defeating Grant, the Democratic Party endorsed the nominees of the Liberal Republican Party.
An influential group of dissident Republicans split from the party to form theLiberal Republican Party in 1870. At the party's only national convention, held inCincinnati in 1872,New York Tribune editor and former representativeHorace Greeley was nominated for president on the sixth ballot, defeatingCharles Francis Adams. Missouri GovernorBenjamin Gratz Brown was nominated for vice president on the second ballot.[2]
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| Charles Francis Adams Sr. | Lyman Trumbull | Benjamin Gratz Brown | David Davis | Andrew Gregg Curtin | Salmon P. Chase | |||
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| Fmr. Envoy to the United Kingdom fromMassachusetts (1861–1868) | U.S. Senator fromIllinois (1855–1873) | 20th Governor of Missouri (1871–1873) | Associate Justice fromIllinois (1862–1877) | Fmr. Envoy to Russia fromPennsylvania (1869–1872) | Chief Justice fromOhio (1864–1873) | |||
| 324 votes | 156 votes | 95 votes | 93 votes | 62 votes | 32 votes | |||
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The Convention met inBaltimore,Maryland, on July 9–10. Because of its strong desire to defeat Ulysses S. Grant, the Democratic Party also nominated the Liberal Republicans' Greeley/Brown ticket[3] and adopted their platform.[4] Greeley received 686 of the 732 delegate votes cast, while Brown received 713. Accepting the Liberal platform meant the Democrats had accepted theNew Departure strategy, which rejected the anti-Reconstruction platform of 1868. They realized that to win the election they had to look forward, and not try to re-fight the Civil War.[5] They also realized that they would only split the anti-Grant vote if they nominated a candidate other than Greeley. However, Greeley's long reputation as the most aggressive antagonist of the Democratic Party, its principles, its leadership, and its activists, cooled Democrats' enthusiasm for the presidential nominee.
Some Democrats were worried that backing Greeley would effectively bring the party to extinction, much like how the moribundWhig Party had been doomed by endorsing theKnow Nothing candidacy ofMillard Fillmore in1856, though others felt that the Democrats were in a much stronger position on a regional level than the Whigs had been at the time of their demise, and predicted (correctly, as it turned out) that the Liberal Republicans would not be viable in the long-term due to their lack of distinctive positions compared to the main Republican Party. A sizable minority led byJames A. Bayard sought to act independently of the Liberal Republican ticket, but the bulk of the party agreed to endorse Greeley's candidacy. The convention, which lasted only six hours stretched over two days, is the shortest major political party convention in history.
The Liberal Republican Party fused with the Democratic Party in all states except for Louisiana and Texas. In states where Republicans were stronger, the Liberal Republicans fielded a majority of the joint slate of candidates for lower offices; while in states where Democrats were stronger, the Democrats fielded the most candidates. In many states, such as Ohio, each party nominated half of a joint slate of candidates. Even initially reluctant Democratic leaders likeThomas F. Bayard came to support Greeley.[6]
Presidential candidates:
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| FormerUnited States Attorney for the Southern District of New York fromNew York (Declined nomination) | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court fromIllinois (Nominee – Withdrew on June 24, 1872) |
The Labor Reform Party had only been organized in 1870 at the National Labor Union Convention, which organized the Labor Reform Party in anticipation of its participation in the 1872 presidential election.[7] In the lead-up to the 1872 presidential election, state-level affiliates of the party formed and saw limited success.[8] One of its major victories was forming a majority coalition with the Democratic Party in theNew Hampshire House of Representatives in 1871 in which William Gove, one of its members, was elected Speaker of the House.[9]
The party's first National Convention meeting was held inColumbus, Ohio, on February 22, 1872.[10] Initially, there was a fair amount of discussion as to whether the party should actually nominate anyone for the presidency at that time, or if they should wait at least for the Liberal Republicans to nominate their own ticket first. Every motion to that effect lost, and a number of ballots were taken that resulted in the nomination ofDavid Davis for president, who was the frontrunner for the Liberal Republican presidential nomination at that time.Joel Parker, the Governor of New Jersey, was nominated for vice president.
While Davis did not decline the presidential nomination of the Labor Reform party, he decided to hinge his campaign in large part on the success of attaining the Liberal Republican presidential nomination, so that he might at least have their resources behind him. After their convention, in which he failed to attain their presidential nomination, Davis telegraphed the Labor Reform party and informed them of his intention to withdraw from the presidential contest entirely. Joel Parker soon followed suit.
A second convention was called on August 22 in Philadelphia, where it was decided, rather than making the same mistake again, that the party would cooperate with the newStraight-Out Democratic Party that had recently formed. After the election, the various state affiliates grew less and less active, and by the following year, the party ceased to exist.[11] Labor Reform party activity continued to 1878, when the Greenback and Labor Reform parties, with other organizations, formed a National Party.[12]
Unwilling to support the Democratic party ticket (Greeley/Brown), a group of mostly Southern Democrats held what they called aStraight-Out Democratic Party convention inLouisville, Kentucky, on August 11, 1872. They nominated as presidential candidateCharles O'Conor, who declined their nomination by telegram; for vice president they nominatedJohn Quincy Adams II. Without time to choose a substitute, the party ran the two candidates anyway. They received 0.36% of thepopular votes, and noElectoral College votes.
Victoria Woodhull is recognized as the first woman to run for president. She was nominated for president by the smallEqual Rights Party.[13]Frederick Douglass was nominated for vice president, although he did not attend the convention, acknowledge his nomination, or take an active role in the campaign.[14]
Grant's administration and hisRadical Republican supporters had been widely accused of corruption, and the Liberal Republicans demanded civil service reform and an end to the Reconstruction process, including withdrawal of federal troops from theSouth. Both Liberal Republicans and Democrats were disappointed in their candidate Greeley. As wits asked, "Why turn out a knave just to replace him with a fool?"[15] A poor campaigner with little political experience, Greeley's career as a newspaper editor gave his opponents a long history of eccentric public positions to attack. With memories of his victories in the Civil War to run on, Grant was unassailable. Grant also had a large campaign budget to work with. One historian was quoted saying, "Never before was a candidate placed under such great obligation to men of wealth as was Grant." A large portion of Grant's campaign funds came from entrepreneurs, includingJay Cooke,Cornelius Vanderbilt,Alexander Turney Stewart,Henry Hilton, andJohn Astor.[16]
This was the first election after the formation of theNational Woman Suffrage Association and theAmerican Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. As a result, protests forwomen's suffrage became more prevalent. TheNational Woman's Suffrage Association held its annual convention in New York City on May 9, 1872. Some of the delegates supportedVictoria Woodhull, who had spent the year since the previous NWSA annual meeting touring the New York City environs and giving speeches on why women should be allowed to vote. The delegates selected Victoria Woodhull to run for president, and namedFrederick Douglass for vice-president. He did not attend the convention and never acknowledged the nomination, though he served as a presidential elector in the United States Electoral College for the State of New York. Woodhull gave a series of speeches around New York City during the campaign. Her finances were very thin, and when she borrowed money from supporters, she often could not repay them. On the day before the election, Woodhull was arrested for "publishing an obscene newspaper" and thus could not cast a vote for herself. Woodhull was ineligible to be president on Inauguration Day, not because she was a woman (theConstitution and the law were silent on the issue), but because she would not reach the constitutionally prescribed minimum age of 35 until September 23, 1873; historians have debated whether to consider her activities a true election campaign. Woodhull and Douglass are not listed in "Election results" below, as the ticket received a negligible percentage of the popular vote and no electoral votes.[17] In addition, several suffragists attempted to vote in the election.Susan B. Anthony was arrested when she tried to vote and was fined $100 in awidely publicized trial.
32% of the voting age population and 72.1% of eligible voters participated in the election.[18] Grant won an easy re-election over Greeley, with a popular vote margin of 11.8% and 763,000 votes.
Grant also won the electoral college with 286 electoral votes; while Greeley won 66 electoral votes, he died on November 29, 1872, twenty-four days after the election and before any of his pledged electors (from Texas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Maryland) could cast their votes. Subsequently, 63 of Greeley's electors cast their votes for other Democrats: 42 voted for non-candidate Indiana Governor-ElectThomas A. Hendricks, 18 of them cast their presidential votes for Greeley's running mate, Benjamin Gratz Brown, 2 cast their votes for non-candidate and former Georgia GovernorCharles J. Jenkins, and 1 cast his vote for non-candidate U.S. Supreme Court JusticeDavid Davis.
Of the 2,171 counties making returns, Grant won in 1,335 while Greeley carried 833. Three counties were split evenly between Grant and Greeley.
During the joint session of Congress for the counting of the electoral vote on February 12, 1873, five states had objections that were raised regarding their results. However, unlike the objections which would be made in1877, these did not affect the outcome of the election.[19]
| State | Electors | Winning candidate | Outcome | Reason for objection | Electors counted |
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| Arkansas | 6 | Grant | Rejected | Various irregularities, including allegations of electoral fraud | No |
| Louisiana | 8 | ||||
| Georgia | 3 (of 11) | Greeley | Rejected | Ballots were cast for Horace Greeley as president after he had died, and was thus ineligible for the office. | Yes (votes for B. Gratz Brown as vice-president) |
| Mississippi | 8 | Grant | Accepted | Irregularities and concerns regarding the eligibility of electorJames J. Spelman | Yes |
| Texas | 8 | Greeley | Accepted | Irregularities | Yes |
This election was the last in which Arkansas voted for a Republican until1972, and the last in which it voted against the Democrats until 1968. Alabama and Mississippi were not carried by a Republican again until1964, and they would not vote against the Democrats until 1948. North Carolina and Virginia would not vote Republican again until 1928. West Virginia, Delaware and New Jersey would not vote Republican again until 1896.
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| Ulysses S. Grant (incumbent) | Republican | Illinois | 3,598,235 | 55.6% | 286 | Henry Wilson | Massachusetts | 286 |
| Thomas A. Hendricks | Democratic | Indiana | —(a) | — | 42 | —(c) | 42 | |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown | Liberal Republican/Democratic | Missouri | —(a) | — | 18 | —(c) | 18 | |
| Horace Greeley | Liberal Republican/Democratic | New York | 2,834,761 | 43.8% | 3(b) | B. Gratz Brown | Missouri | 3(b) |
| Charles J. Jenkins | Democratic | Georgia | —(a) | — | 2 | —(c) | 2 | |
| David Davis | Liberal Republican | Illinois | —(a) | — | 1 | —(c) | 1 | |
| Charles O'Conor | Straight-Out Democrats | New York | 18,602 | 0.3% | 0 | John Quincy Adams II | Massachusetts | 0 |
| James Black | Prohibition | Pennsylvania | 5,607 | 0.1% | 0 | John Russell | Michigan | 0 |
| Other | 10,473 | 0.2% | 0 | |||||
| Total | 6,467,678 | 100.0% | 352(d) | |||||
| Needed to win | 177(d) | |||||||
Source (popular vote): Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections[21]
Source (electoral vote):"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996".National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedJuly 31, 2005.
(a)These candidates received votes from Electors who were pledged to Horace Greeley, who died before the electoral votes were cast.
(b)Brown's vice-presidential votes were counted, but the presidential votes for Horace Greeley were rejected since he was ineligible for the office of President due to his death.
(c)SeeBreakdown by ticket below.
(d)The 14 electoral votes from Arkansas and Louisiana were rejected. Had they not been rejected, Grant would have received 300 electoral votes out of a total of 366, well in excess of the 184 required to win, and he would have become the first candidate to receive 300 or more electoral votes.
Source:"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996".National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedJuly 31, 2005.
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Source: Data fromWalter Dean Burnham,Presidential ballots, 1836–1892 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp 247–57.[22]
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| State | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | # | |
| Alabama | 10 | 90,272 | 53.19 | 10 | 79,444 | 46.81 | - | - | - | - | 10,828 | 6.38 | 169,716 | AL |
| Arkansas | 6 | 41,373 | 52.17 | 0 | 37,927 | 47.83 | - | - | - | - | 3,446 | 4.35 | 79,300 | AR |
| California | 6 | 51,181 | 56.00 | 6 | 39,060 | 42.74 | - | 920 | 1.01 | - | 12,121 | 13.26 | 91,387 | CA |
| Connecticut | 6 | 50,314 | 52.41 | 6 | 45,695 | 47.59 | - | - | - | - | 4,619 | 4.81 | 96,009 | CT |
| Delaware | 3 | 11,129 | 51.00 | 3 | 10,205 | 46.76 | - | 488 | 2.24 | - | 924 | 4.23 | 21,822 | DE |
| Florida | 4 | 17,763 | 53.52 | 4 | 15,427 | 46.48 | - | - | - | - | 2,336 | 7.04 | 33,190 | FL |
| Georgia | 11 | 62,550 | 45.03 | - | 76,356 | 54.97 | 11 | - | - | - | -13,806 | -9.94 | 138,906 | GA |
| Illinois | 21 | 241,936 | 56.27 | 21 | 184,884 | 43.00 | - | 3,151 | 0.73 | - | 57,052 | 13.27 | 429,971 | IL |
| Indiana | 15 | 186,147 | 53.00 | 15 | 163,632 | 46.59 | - | 1,417 | 0.40 | - | 22,515 | 6.41 | 351,196 | IN |
| Iowa | 11 | 131,566 | 60.81 | 11 | 81,636 | 37.73 | - | 2,221 | 1.03 | - | 49,930 | 23.08 | 216,365 | IA |
| Kansas | 5 | 66,805 | 66.46 | 5 | 32,970 | 32.80 | - | 156 | 0.16 | - | 33,835 | 33.66 | 100,512 | KS |
| Kentucky | 12 | 88,766 | 46.44 | - | 99,995 | 52.32 | 12 | 2,374 | 1.24 | - | -11,229 | -5.87 | 191,135 | KY |
| Louisiana | 8 | 71,663 | 55.69 | 0 | 57,029 | 44.31 | - | - | - | - | 14,634 | 11.37 | 128,692 | LA |
| Maine | 7 | 61,426 | 67.86 | 7 | 29,097 | 32.14 | - | - | - | - | 32,329 | 35.71 | 90,523 | ME |
| Maryland | 8 | 66,760 | 49.66 | - | 67,687 | 50.34 | 8 | - | - | - | -927 | -0.69 | 134,447 | MD |
| Massachusetts | 13 | 133,455 | 69.20 | 13 | 59,195 | 30.69 | - | - | - | - | 74,260 | 38.50 | 192,864 | MA |
| Michigan | 11 | 138,758 | 62.66 | 11 | 78,551 | 35.47 | - | 2,875 | 1.30 | - | 60,207 | 27.19 | 221,455 | MI |
| Minnesota | 5 | 55,708 | 61.27 | 5 | 35,211 | 38.73 | - | - | - | - | 20,497 | 22.54 | 90,919 | MN |
| Mississippi | 8 | 82,175 | 63.48 | 8 | 47,282 | 36.52 | - | - | - | - | 34,893 | 26.95 | 129,457 | MS |
| Missouri | 15 | 119,196 | 43.65 | - | 151,434 | 55.46 | 15 | 2,429 | 0.89 | - | -32,238 | -11.81 | 273,059 | MO |
| Nebraska | 3 | 18,329 | 70.68 | 3 | 7,603 | 29.32 | - | - | - | - | 10,726 | 41.36 | 25,932 | NE |
| Nevada | 3 | 8,413 | 57.43 | 3 | 6,236 | 42.57 | - | - | - | - | 2,177 | 14.86 | 14,649 | NV |
| New Hampshire | 5 | 37,168 | 53.94 | 5 | 31,425 | 45.61 | - | - | - | - | 5,743 | 8.33 | 68,906 | NH |
| New Jersey | 9 | 91,656 | 54.52 | 9 | 76,456 | 45.48 | - | - | - | - | 15,200 | 9.04 | 168,112 | NJ |
| New York | 35 | 440,738 | 53.23 | 35 | 387,282 | 46.77 | - | - | - | - | 53,456 | 6.46 | 828,020 | NY |
| North Carolina | 10 | 94,772 | 57.38 | 10 | 70,130 | 42.46 | - | 261 | 0.16 | - | 24,642 | 14.92 | 165,163 | NC |
| Ohio | 22 | 281,852 | 53.24 | 22 | 244,321 | 46.15 | - | 1,163 | 0.22 | - | 37,531 | 7.09 | 529,436 | OH |
| Oregon | 3 | 11,818 | 58.66 | 3 | 7,742 | 38.43 | - | 587 | 2.91 | - | 4,076 | 20.23 | 20,147 | OR |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | 349,589 | 62.07 | 29 | 212,041 | 37.65 | - | - | - | - | 137,548 | 24.42 | 563,262 | PA |
| Rhode Island | 4 | 13,665 | 71.94 | 4 | 5,329 | 28.06 | - | - | - | - | 8,336 | 43.89 | 18,994 | RI |
| South Carolina | 7 | 72,290 | 75.73 | 7 | 22,699 | 23.78 | - | 204 | 0.21 | - | 49,591 | 51.95 | 95,452 | SC |
| Tennessee | 12 | 85,655 | 47.84 | - | 93,391 | 52.16 | 12 | - | - | - | -7,736 | -4.32 | 179,046 | TN |
| Texas | 8 | 47,468 | 40.71 | - | 66,546 | 57.07 | 8 | 2,580 | 2.21 | - | -19,078 | -16.36 | 116,594 | TX |
| Vermont | 5 | 41,480 | 78.29 | 5 | 10,926 | 20.62 | - | 553 | 1.04 | - | 30,554 | 57.67 | 52,980 | VT |
| Virginia | 11 | 93,463 | 50.47 | 11 | 91,647 | 49.49 | - | 85 | 0.05 | - | 1,816 | 0.98 | 185,195 | VA |
| West Virginia | 5 | 32,320 | 51.74 | 5 | 29,532 | 47.28 | - | 615 | 0.98 | - | 2,788 | 4.46 | 62,467 | WV |
| Wisconsin | 10 | 104,994 | 54.60 | 10 | 86,477 | 44.97 | - | 834 | 0.43 | - | 18,517 | 9.16 | 192,305 | WI |
| TOTALS: | 366 | 3,597,439 | 55.58 | 286 | 2,833,710 | 43.78 | 66 | 23,054 | 0.36 | - | 763,729 | 11.80 | 6,471,983 | US |
Red font color denotes states won by Republican Ulysses S. Grant; pink denotes those won by Democrat/Liberal Republican Horace Greeley.
States where the margin of victory was under 1% (19 electoral votes)
Margin of victory between 1% and 5% (32 electoral votes)
Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (133 electoral votes):
| Presidential candidate | Running mate | Electoral vote(a) |
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| Ulysses S. Grant | Henry Wilson | 286 |
| Thomas Andrews Hendricks | Benjamin Gratz Brown | 41 .. 42 |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown | Alfred Holt Colquitt | 5 |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown | George Washington Julian | 4 .. 5 |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown | Thomas E. Bramlette | 3 |
| Horace Greeley | Benjamin Gratz Brown | 3(b) |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown | John McAuley Palmer | 2 .. 3 |
| Charles J. Jenkins | Benjamin Gratz Brown | 2 |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown | Nathaniel Prentiss Banks | 1 |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown | Willis Benson Machen | 1 |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown | William Slocum Groesbeck | 0 .. 1 |
| David Davis | Benjamin Gratz Brown | 0 .. 1 |
| David Davis | William Slocum Groesbeck | 0 .. 1 |
| David Davis | George Washington Julian | 0 .. 1 |
| David Davis | John McAuley Palmer | 0 .. 1 |
| Thomas Andrews Hendricks | William Slocum Groesbeck | 0 .. 1 |
| Thomas Andrews Hendricks | George Washington Julian | 0 .. 1 |
| Thomas Andrews Hendricks | John McAuley Palmer | 0 .. 1 |
(a)The used sources had insufficient data to determine the pairings of 4 electoral votes in Missouri; therefore, the possible tickets are listed with the minimum and maximum possible number of electoral votes each.
(b)Brown's vice-presidential votes were counted, but the presidential votes for Horace Greeley were rejected since he was ineligible for the office of President due to his death.
Though the national party organization disappeared after 1872, several Liberal Republican members continued to serve in Congress after the 1872 elections. Most Liberal Republican Congressmen eventually joined the Democratic Party. Outside of the South, some Liberal Republicans sought the creation of a new party opposed to Republicans, but Democrats were unwilling to abandon their old party affiliation and even relatively successful efforts like Wisconsin'sReform Party collapsed. The especially strong Missouri Liberal Republican Party collapsed as the Democrats re-established themselves as the major opposition party to the Republicans. In the following years, former Liberal Republicans became members in good standing of both major parties.[23]
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