1872 United States presidential election in Texas

none June 2025 September 2023 1872 United States presidential election 1872 United States presidential election in Texas Texas November 5, 1872 presidential no 1860 United States presidential election in Texas 1860 1876 United States presidential election in Texas 1876 200x200px Horace Greeley restored (cropped2).jpg Horace Greeley Liberal Republican Party (United States) New York Benjamin Gratz Brown 66,546 57.07% Ulysses S. Grant 1870-1880 (cropped2).jpg Ulysses S. Grant Republican Party (United States) Illinois Henry Wilson 47,468 40.71% 1872 United States presidential election in Texas results map by county.svg 350px County results Greeley #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Grant #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% yes Electoral College vote December 17, 1872 presidential no 8 members of the Electoral College from Texas File:Thomas Andrews Hendricks (cropped 3x4).jpg Thomas A. Hendricks Democratic Party (United States) Indiana Benjamin Gratz Brown 8 President Ulysses S. Grant Republican Party (United States) Ulysses S. Grant Republican Party (United States) The 1872 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 5, 1872, as part of the 1872 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to represent the state in the Electoral College, which chose the president and vice president. Texas voted for the Liberal Republican nominee Horace Greeley, who received 57% of the vote. However, Greeley died before the electors could cast their votes for president and vice president. Since it was already clear long before Greeley's death that incumbent Republican President Ulysses S. Grant had easily won re-election in any case, Texan electors (along with the electors of five other states) were effectively left free to vote for whoever they chose. All eight electors voted for Thomas A. Hendricks. This was the first presidential election since 1860 that Texas participated in. It had seceded from the United States in March 1861 and joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. It would not participate in the following elections in 1864 and 1868 and would not be readmitted into the Union until 1870. This was the first presidential election in Texas in which the Republican nominee was on the ballot. President Grant finished a respectable second with over 40% of the vote, which ultimately stood as the best performance for a Republican candidate for over half a century until Republican Herbert Hoover won the state in 1928 as part of an anti-Catholic surge against Democratic nominee Al Smith. This remains the only election in which Texas's electoral votes went to a Democrat while neighboring Arkansas voted Republican. Results 1872 United States presidential election in Texashttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=48&year=1872&f=0&off=0&elect=0 David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential ElectionsPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Thomas A. Hendricks – – 8 Liberal Republican Horace Greeley 66,546 57.07% 0Eight electors were pledged to Greeley, who had died after the election, but before the meeting of the Electoral College; these electors voted for Thomas A. Hendricks. Republican Ulysses S. Grant (incumbent) 47,468 40.71% 0 Straight-Out Democrat Charles O'Conor 2,580 2.21% 0 Total 116,594 100.00% 8 See also United States presidential elections in Texas Footnotes References 1872 Texas Category:1872 Texas elections