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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 1868. In the first election of the Reconstruction Era, Republican nominee Ulysses S. Grant defeated Horatio Seymour of the Democratic Party. It was the first presidential election to take place after the conclusion of the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Presidential election; Partisan control: Republican gain: Popular vote margin: Republican +5.4%: Electoral vote: Ulysses S. Grant (R) 214: Horatio Seymour (D) 80: 1868 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Grant, blue denotes states won by Seymour, and green denotes states that had not yet been restored to the Union.
A map of the results of the 1868 U.S. presidential election. In this election, Grant decisively won the electoral vote. The 1868 election occurred three years after the end of the American Civil War and less than a year after President Andrew Johnson's impeachment (Johnson failed to get convicted by one vote). [2]
The 1868 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 3, 1868, as part of the 1868 United States presidential election. Voters chose 26 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
15th president James Buchanan (died June 1, 1868) 1 year, 129 days before 14th president Franklin Pierce (died October 8, 1869) 5 years, 280 days before 13th president Millard Fillmore (died March 8, 1874) 16th president Abraham Lincoln (died April 15, 1865) 3 years, 47 days before 15th president James Buchanan (died June 1, 1868)
Tennessee was won by Ulysses S. Grant, formerly the 6th Commanding General of the United States Army (R-Illinois), running with Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax, with 68.43% of the popular vote, against the 18th governor of New York, Horatio Seymour (D–New York), running with former Senator Francis Preston Blair Jr., with 31.57% of the vote.
1868 New York state election; 1868 South Carolina gubernatorial election; United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1868; 1868 and 1869 United States House of Representatives elections; 1868 United States presidential election; 1868 and 1869 United States Senate elections
Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. New Jersey voted for the Democratic nominee, former Governor of New York Horatio Seymour, over the Republican nominee, General Ulysses S. Grant. Seymour won by a narrow margin of 1.76%.