Ulysses S. Grant
18th President (1869-1877)


Birth: April 27, 1822
Point Pleasant, Ohio
as Hiram Ulysses Grant

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Death: July 23, 1885
Wilton, New York

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Presidential Election Results

Year Opponent Results
1868 Horatio Seymour (Democrat) Grant 214, Seymour 80
1872 Horace Greeley (Democrat/Liberal Republican) Grant 286. Various candidates received a minority of electoral votes as Horace Greeley
died after the election, but prior to the Electoral College vote.