General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Democratic…

General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Democratic candidate, Horatio Seymour, in the presidential election of November 3, in a campaign in which the Republican main issue is the “bloody shirt of the rebellion”.

Although Grant's margin in the popular vote is somewhat narrow, he wins 214 electoral votes to his opponent's 80.

Lincoln had kept his beard until his death by an assassin's bullet in 1865.

His vice president and successor, Andrew Johnson, is clean-shaven, but Ulysses Grant will retain the beard he has worn throughout his adult life.

Seymour, a former two-time governor of New York, sports a neck ruff.