United States Presidential Election, 1872 (Abraham Lincoln Born in the 20th Century)

The United States presidential election of 1872 was the 22nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1872. The incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant was easily elected to a second term in office, with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate. George McClellan was re-nominated by the Republican Party but some didn't want McClellan and decided to split from the Republican Party that resulted in a third party of Liberal Republicans nominating Horace Greeley to oppose both Grant and McClellan.

On November 29, 1872, after the popular vote was counted, but before the Electoral College cast its votes, Greeley died.