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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 in 1908 .
The 1872 United States elections were held on November 5, electing the members of the 43rd United States Congress. The election took place during the Third Party System . The election took place during the Reconstruction Era , and many Southerners were barred from voting.
Victoria Claflin Woodhull (born Victoria California Claflin; September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927), later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election.
In 1872, Horace Greeley ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States.He served as the candidate of both the Democrats and the Liberal Republicans (a breakaway party that split off from the Republican Party due to its members' dislike of the corruption of the Republicans and the Republicans' Reconstruction policies), in the 1872 election. [1]
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
July 4 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929, 29th vice president of the United States from 1921 to 1923 (died 1933) July 8 – John H. Bankhead II, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1931 to 1946 (died 1946) August 2 – George E. Stewart, U.S. Army officer, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1946)
The 1872 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 5, 1872. All contemporary 37 states were part of the 1872 United States presidential election . The state voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College , which selected the president and vice president .
The first two of the reported arrests were in 1866, when Grant was commanding general; the third is said to have occurred in 1872, when Grant was serving as the president of the United States. While of questionable historicity , the third is the best-known; if it did occur, this would make Grant the only U.S. president to have been arrested ...