1872 Liberal Republican convention


An influential group of dissident Republicans split from the party to form the Liberal Republican Party in 1870. At the party's only national convention, held in Cincinnati in 1872, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley was nominated for President on the sixth ballot, defeating Charles Francis Adams. Missouri Governor Benjamin Gratz Brown was nominated for vice-president on the second ballot. Two months later they were nominated as well at the 1872 Democratic National Convention.

Balloting

Liberal Republican candidates:

Presidential

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Vice Presidential

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Platform

The Liberal platform called for an end to the hatreds of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, demanded civil service reform to curb corruption, and hedged on the tariff issue.

We, the Liberal Republicans of the United States in National Convention assembled at Cincinnati, proclaim the following principles as essential to just government.