Ulysses S. Grant beat Horatio Seymour in 1868 and Horace Greeley in 1872 (Greeley carried six states, but died between the November election, when electors are chosen, and the December election, when the electors cast their votes).
Grant was in Tennessee in 1862. Bull Run is in Virginia.
No, he was not. At the time of the Battle of Bull Run Grant was still a colonel of the 21st Illinois Infantry regiment doing duty in Missouri.
U.S. Grant, who became General-in-Chief and ended the war by cancelling prisoner-exchange and waiting for the Confederates to run out of manpower.
His opponent in 1868 was Horatio Seymour from New York. In 1872 Horace Greeley, also from New York, ran against him. (Greeley died after the popular election but before the electoral college voted, so it might have been legally interesting if Greeley had won. )Victoria Woodhull also ran in 1872, but she was too young to be president, did not appear on any ballots and did not get any votes, so some doubt that she was a serious candidate.
Grant achieved fame by winning the Civil War as the its commanding general. He then served in Washington was the acting Secretary of War and people starting urging him to run for President. There were no other strong candidates, so Grant agreed to run and won easily for two terms.
Yes, and some people wanted him to try for a third term.
Ulysses S Grant won that year.
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Grant was in Tennessee in 1862. Bull Run is in Virginia.
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.
Ulysses S. Grant
No, he was not. At the time of the Battle of Bull Run Grant was still a colonel of the 21st Illinois Infantry regiment doing duty in Missouri.
He was actually living in Washington,DC, I think, but he had a residence in Galena, Illinois.
U.S. Grant, who became General-in-Chief and ended the war by cancelling prisoner-exchange and waiting for the Confederates to run out of manpower.
Ulysses S Grant did not run for a third term, although there was some sentiment in the Republican party for him to do so. His decision not to run was based on his own desire to maintain the two term limit that had been the tradition (but not the law) for the American Presidency since George Washington. Also affecting his decision were numerous scandals that occured in his administration concerning misallocation of government monies. Therefore the election of 1876 was between the Democrat Tilden and the Republican Rutherford B Hayes. Tilden received the majority of votes but Hayes won in the electoral college vote and became the 19th President of the United States