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The 1872 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 5, 1872. All contemporary 37 states were part of the 1872 United States presidential election. The state voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
New Hampshire was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois and his running mate Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts. Grant and Wilson defeated the Liberal Republican and Democratic nominees, former Congressman Horace Greeley of New York and his running mate former Senator and Governor Benjamin Gratz Brown of Missouri by a margin of 8.33%.
Horace Greeley was born in Amherst, New Hampshire.
Results
1872 United States presidential election in New Hampshire1872 Presidential General Election Results - New Hampshire en http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1872&fips=33&f=1&off=0&elect=0 https://web.archive.org/web/20081202092426/https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1872&fips=33&f=1&off=0&elect=0 2008-12-02
Republican Party (United States)
Ulysses S. Grant
Illinois
Henry Wilson
Massachusetts
37,168
53.94%
5
100.00%
Liberal Republican Party (United States)
Horace Greeley
New York
Benjamin Gratz Brown
Missouri
31,425
45.61%
0
0.00%
Prohibition Party Prohibition
James Black
Pennsylvania
John Russell
Michigan
200
0.29%
0
0.00%
Bourbon Democrat
Charles O’Conor
New York
John Quincy Adams II
Massachusetts
113
0.16%
0
0.00%
68,906
100.00%
5
100.00%
See also
United States presidential elections in New Hampshire
References
New Hampshire
1872
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