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May 9 – The city of Reno, Nevada is founded. May 16 and 26 – President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate. May 30 – Memorial Day is observed in the United States for the first time (it was proclaimed on May 5 by General John A. Logan).
The 1868 United States elections was held on November 3, electing the members of the 41st United States Congress. The election took place during the Reconstruction Era, and many Southerners were barred from voting.
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Reconstruction and civil rights of former slaves was a hotly debated issue in the Union. Grant supported the Reconstruction plans of the Radical Republicansin Congress, which favored the 14th Amendment, with full citizenship and civil rights for freedmen, including manhood suffrage. The Democratic platform condemned "Negro supremacy" and demanded a...
Republican Party nomination
By 1868, the Republicans felt strong enough to drop the Union Party label, but wanted to nominate a popular hero for their presidential candidate. The Democratic Party controlled many large Northern states that had a great percentage of the electoral votes. General Ulysses S. Grant announced he was a Republican and was unanimously nominated on the first ballot as the party's standard-bearer at the Republican convention in Chicago, Illinois, held on May 20–21, 1868. House Speaker Schuyler Colf...
Democratic Party nomination
1. Former Governor Horatio Seymour of New York 2. Former Representative George H. Pendleton of Ohio 3. Senator Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana 4. General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania 5. President Andrew Johnson 6. Former Lieutenant Governor Sanford E. Church of New York 1. Former Representative Asa Packer of Pennsylvania 2. Governor James E. English of Connecticut 3. Former Governor Joel Parker of New Jersey 4. Senator James Rood Doolittle of Wisconsin 5. Associate Justice Stephen J....
Campaign
The 1868 campaign of Horatio Seymour versus Ulysses S. Grant was conducted vigorously, being fought out largely on the question of how Reconstruction should be conducted. The Republicans were fearful as late as October that they might be beaten. Grant's antisemitic General Order No. 11 during the Civil War became a campaign issue. He apologized in a letter for the controversial order. In his army days he had traded at a local store operated by the Seligman brothers, two Jewish merchants who b...
Results
Horatio Seymour polled 2,708,744 votes and Grant 3,013,650. The closeness of the popular vote surprised the political elite at the time. Republican Representative James G. Blaine called the slender popular majority for Grant "a very startling fact." Blaine, an acute judge of popular sentiment, was at a loss to explain the size of the Democratic vote.Ethnic Irish Catholic and other immigrants had been settling in New York for nearly a quarter century. The narrow margins by which Seymour lost s...
Results by state
Source: Data from Walter Dean Burnham, Presidential ballots, 1836–1892(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp 247–57.
American Annual Cyclopedia ... 1868 (1869), online, highly detailed compendium of facts and primary sourcesColeman, Charles Hubert. The election of 1868 : the Democratic effort to regain control (1933) onlineGambill, Edward. Conservative Ordeal: Northern Democrats and Reconstruction, 1865-1868.(Iowa State University Press: 1981).Edward McPherson. The Political History of the United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction (1875)large collection of speeches and primary documents, 1865–1870, complete text online...United States presidential election of 1868 at the Encyclopædia Britannica- Illinois
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