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American presidential election, 1872
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Category: History & Society
Date:
November 5, 1872
Participants:
Ulysses S. Grant
Horace Greeley
Thomas A. Hendricks
Henry Wilson
B. Gratz Brown
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United States presidential election of 1872, American presidential election held November 5, 1872, in which Republican incumbent Ulysses S. Grant defeated Liberal Republican and Democratic candidate Horace Greeley with 286 electoral votes. Though 66 electoral votes had been pledged to Greeley, he died shortly after the election, and the votes were divided between five other candidates. Early in Grant’s first term as president, it became apparent that his civil service appointments and those made by his political allies had been largely motivated by cronyism rather than merit. The pervasive appointment of unqualified friends and associates of Grant and his allies, ...(100 of 585 words)

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