Republican Party candidateUlysses S. Grant won the 1868 presidential election defeating Democratic Party candidate Horatio Seymour. In the 1868 presidential election Ulysses S. Grant received 214 electoral votes and Horatio Seymour received 80 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Grant 3,013,650 and Seymour 2,708,744.
Grant was nominated for president by the Republican party in 1868 and again in 1872.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. Ulysses S. Grant won the 1868 U. S. Presidential Election.
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The entire election campaign of 1868 opened with the assassination of a Republican congressman from Arkansas and three members of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
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Lincoln ran in the election of 1860.
The Democrats chose Horatio Seymour as their nominee in the election of 1868. He served as the Governor of New York and was known for his opposition to Reconstruction policies and advocating for white supremacy in the South. However, Seymour lost the election to the Republican nominee, Ulysses S. Grant.
Pierce was 47 when he was nominated and elected. He turned 48 three weeks after the election.
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I think (election) campaign is the phrase you are looking for. After a candidate is nominated he runs a campaign to try to convince voters to vote for him in the upcoming election.
In the Presidential election of 1868, his competitor was Horatio Seymour.