Ulysses S. Grant runs against Horace Greeley…

Ulysses S. Grant runs against Horace Greeley and five other Democratic candidates in the presidential election of November 5, 1872.

In a campaign marked by protests against corruption in Washington, proposals of liberal reform, and confusion about treatment of the South, Grants wins reelection by carrying every Northern state, as well as a few in the South.

Greeley wins six states.

Grant's margin is more comfortable than it was in 1868: 55.5% to Greeley's 43.8% in the popular vote, and 286 electoral votes.

The Liberal Republican Party had fused with the Democratic Party in all states except for Louisiana and Texas.

In many states, such as Ohio, the two parties had nominated half of the slate of candidates.

Some Democrats had supported Charles O'Conor, who had run for President on the Straight-Out Democratic ticket.

However, in the state elections held in the fall prior to the presidential election, the LR-D fusion tickets had been easily defeated by the Republicans.