Ulysses S. Grant was president from 1869-1879. Ulysses S. Grant ran for reelection against Horace Greeley. (Grant was in office until 1877.)
Ulysses S. Grant
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.
Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant never faced each other in an election. Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865, while Grant ran for president later, winning the election in 1868. Lincoln served as president from 1861 until his death, and Grant succeeded Andrew Johnson after the Civil War.
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