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1872 Presidential Election

Results of the presidential election of 1872, won by Ulysses S. Grant with 286 electoral votes.

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Ulysses S. Grant's Cabinet

President: Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)

Vice President: Henry Wilson (1873-1875), None (1875-1877)

Secretary of State: Hamilton Fish (1869-1877)

Secretary of the Treasury: William Adams Richardson (1873-1874), Benjamin Bristow (1874-1876), Lot M. Morrill (1876-1877)

Secretary of War: William W. Belknap (1869-1876), Alphonso Taft (1876-1876), J. Donald Cameron (1876-1877)

Attorney General: George Henry Williams (1871-1875), Edwards Pierrepont (1875-1876), Alphonso Taft (1876-1877)

Postmaster General: John Creswell (1869-1874), James William Marshall (1874-1874), Marshall Jewell (1874-1876), James Noble Tyner (1876-1877)

Secretary of the Navy: George M. Robeson (1869-1877)

Electoral Vote Totals

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1872 National Election

66
Horace Greeley (Deceased)
286
Ulysses S. Grant
177 to win
2,835,315 votes (43.8%)
Running Mate: Benjamin Gratz Brown
3,598,468 votes (55.6%)
Running Mate: Henry Wilson

Democratic nominee Horace Greeley died after the election, but before vote of Electors; most of whom chose other Democrats.

1872

State Electoral Votes

Alabama

10

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

6

California

6

Colorado

Connecticut

6

Delaware

3

District of Columbia

Florida

4

Georgia

11

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

21

Indiana

15

Iowa

11

Kansas

5

Kentucky

12

Louisiana

8

Maine

7

Maryland

8

Massachusetts

13

Michigan

11

Minnesota

5

Mississippi

8

Missouri

15

Montana

Nebraska

3

Nevada

3

New Hampshire

5

New Jersey

9

New Mexico

New York

35

North Carolina

10

North Dakota

Ohio

22

Oklahoma

Oregon

3

Pennsylvania

29

Rhode Island

4

South Carolina

7

South Dakota

Tennessee

12

Texas

8

Utah

Vermont

5

Virginia

11

Washington

West Virginia

5

Wisconsin

10

Wyoming



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