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Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was president from 1869-1879. Ulysses S. Grant ran for reelection against Horace Greeley. (Grant was in office until 1877.)
Ran for President
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president. He was president from 1869 to 1877.18He was the 18th president.
He ran for the office and was well known for his command of Union forces in the Civil War.
There seems to be some confusion in your question. Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States and served from 1869 to 1877. There was no presidential election in 1972 involving Grant or anyone running as a liberal Republican candidate. Richard Nixon, a Republican, ran against George McGovern, a Democrat, in the 1972 presidential election.
The first U.S. President to have a female opponent was Ulysses S. Grant. Victoria Woodhull ran in the election of 1872, becoming the first woman to run for president.
From George Washington up to today, one presidential term is four years.
Horace Greeley was a cranky newspaper editor who carried the liberal republican and democratic banners against Grant. He was the founder and editor of the New York Tribune and a vocal critic of President Ulysses S. Grant's administration. Greeley ran for president in 1872 as the nominee of the Liberal Republican Party and the Democratic Party, but lost to Grant.
Ran successfully for a 2-term Presidency
Ulysses S. Grant (born April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio; died July 23, 1885 in Mount McGregor, New York) succeeded Andrew Johnson as the eighteenth President of the United States, serving between March 4, 1869 and March 4, 1877, including the whole of the year 1873.