That's The Ticket:
A Parade of Presidential Elections
Republican Ticket  | |
| Presidential candidate: | ULYSSES S. GRANT, U.S. Army General |
| VP candidate: | SCHUYLER COLFAX, Indiana Congressman |
| Popular votes: | 3,013,650 (52.7%) |
| Electoral votes: | 214 |
| Democratic Ticket | |
| Presidential candidate: | Horatio Seymour, New York Governor |
| VP candidate: | Francis Blair, former Missouri Congressman |
| Popular votes: | 2,708,744 (47.3%) |
| Electoral votes: | 80 |
Election Facts
- Feuds over postwar Reconstruction in the South torpedoed Andrew Johnson's Republican administration.
- Democrats criticized military occupation of the South and new legal rights for freed slaves.
- Republicans ran as the party that won the war.
- Grant's status as a war hero helped him win support among new black voters and win the election.
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