The 1872 United States presidential election was the 22nd quadrennial presidential election,held on Tuesday,November 5,1872. Despite a split in the Republican Party,incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant defeated Democratic-endorsed Liberal Republican nominee Horace Greeley.
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback was an American publisher,politician,and Union Army officer. Pinchback was the first African American governor of a U.S. state and the second lieutenant governor. A Republican,Pinchback served as acting governor of Louisiana for 35 days from December 9,1872 to January 13,1873,during which ten acts of Legislature became law. He was one of the most prominent African-American officeholders during the Reconstruction Era.
Philander Chase Knox was an American lawyer,bank director and politician. A member of the Republican Party,Knox served in the Cabinet of three different presidents and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate.
George Higgins Moses was a U.S. diplomat and political figure. He served as a United States senator from New Hampshire and was chosen as the Senate's President pro tempore.
Thomas Holliday Hicks was a politician in the divided border-state of Maryland during the American Civil War. As governor,opposing the Democrats,his views accurately reflected the conflicting local loyalties. He was pro-slavery but anti-secession. Under pressure to call the General Assembly into special session,he held it in the pro-Union town of Frederick,where he was able to keep the state from seceding to join the Confederacy.
Maryland's 6th congressional district elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives from the northwest part of the state. The district comprises all of Garrett,Allegany,Frederick,and Washington counties as well as a portion of Montgomery County. David Trone (D) is its current representative.
Peter Francis Tague was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Boston,Massachusetts.
Carroll Smalley Page was an American businessman and politician. He served as the 43rd governor of Vermont and a United States senator.
Frederick Steiwer was an American politician and lawyer in the state of Oregon.
Jeremiah Haralson was a politician from Alabama who served as a state legislator and was among the first ten African-American United States Congressmen. Born into slavery in Columbus,Georgia,Haralson became self-educated while enslaved in Selma,Alabama. He was a leader among freedmen after the American Civil War.
Alanson Bigelow Houghton was an American businessman,politician,and diplomat who served as a Congressman and Ambassador. He was a member of the Republican Party.
George Washington Julian was a politician,lawyer,and writer from Indiana who served in the United States House of Representatives during the 19th century. A leading opponent of slavery,Julian was the Free Soil Party's candidate for vice president in the 1852 election and was a prominent Radical Republican during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era.
William Willets Cocks was an American politician who served three terms as from New York from 1905 to 1911.
De Alva Stanwood Alexander was an American journalist,lawyer,historian,and member of the United States House of Representatives,serving seven terms from 1897 to 1911 as a representative of New York state.
Thomas Walter Harrison was a Virginia lawyer,judge and politician. He served in the Senate of Virginia and in the United States House of Representatives.
George Cookman Sturgiss was a lawyer and Republican politician who served as United States Representative for West Virginia's 2nd congressional district. He was a member of the 60th and 61st United States Congresses.
William Patrick Huizenga is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 4th congressional district,serving in Congress since 2011. The district,numbered as the 2nd district from 2011 to 2023,covers much of the southwestern corner of the state,including Kalamazoo,Holland and Battle Creek.
The 1872–73 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states,coinciding with President Ulysses S. Grant's re-election. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1872 and 1873,and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. In these elections,terms were up for the senators in Class 3.
Frederick B. Keller is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,who served as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district from 2019 to 2023. He was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 85th district from 2011 until his resignation in May 2019 following election to the U.S. House.
John Robert Moolenaar is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 2nd congressional district since 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 to 2008 and the Michigan Senate from 2011 to 2014.
