The Election of 1872

Grant won the election of 1872 and continue on with his presidency. Again, Grant ran for the Radical Republicans. He was easily elected to a second term in office with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate. Since the Republican Party split, Grant had to face with the Liberal Republicans which nominate Horace Greeley. The Democratic Party want to defeat Grant so much that they also nominated the Liberal Republican candidate. As a result,Greeley was also nominated by the Democratic Party. But even so, Grant still won the election. The results were as followed:

Grant did won the election easily because of the very shocking incident that had happened to his opponent. On November 29, 1872, after the popular vote was cast, Greeley died. As a result,
the electors changed his votes for four other candidates. Greeley did receive three electoral votes but these votes were prohibited by the Congress. It is so far the only election in which a President candidate died during the election process. Grant had won by almost 800,000 popular votes and 220 electoral votes. The Republican won the election.