So during the 1868 election, Johnson tried to earn the Democratic nomination but lost to Horatio Seymour, the former Governor of New York. Seymour lost in the general election to Ulysses S.

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Our Georgia correspondent writes that the people of that State of all parties, have given up the hope of Democratic success, and are discussing what they shall do when GRANT is elected.

Bash and Fisher examine Louisiana’s 1872 gubernatorial election ... of the Democratic Party opposed Black equality, could ...

Democrats and their allies have been fighting Donald Trump and Trumpism for nearly 10 years, only to be back at the starting ...

There’s a snowstorm and they can’t leave for seven days. Who do they eat first? Mark Twain’s 1868 short story, “Cannibalism in the Cars,” takes place in a train, not a bar, but there’s still ...

By the time of the 1868 elections, Congressional Reconstruction was in full force in Washington, while Blair, who was the Democratic candidate for vice-president, attacked "carpetbag Southern ...

The vice president is also the projected winner in Maryland and DC, while Trump secured West Virginia’s electoral votes.

On Thursday morning, Trump's probability of winning was 63% or higher on Polymarket, a crypto trading platform, and two major ...

On this Election Day and in the days leading up to it, thousands of people have been visiting suffragist Susan B. Anthony’s ...