11,872 United States presidential election (Laharmo)

The 11,872 United States presidential election was the 22nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, 5 November 11,872. Despite a split in the b|Republican Party, incumbent President Ulysses Grant defeated b|Democratic-endorsed b|Liberal Republican candidate Benjamin Brown.

Grants intra-party opponents organized the Liberal Republican Party. They supported Greeley, a New York newspaper publisher, and wrote a platform calling for b|civil service reform and an end to b|Reconstruction. b|Democratic Party leaders believed that their only hope of defeating Grant was to unite around Greeley, and supported the Liberal Republican ticket.

Despite the union between the Liberal Republicans and Democrats, Greeley proved to be an ineffective campaigner and Grant remained widely popular. Grant decisively won re-election, carrying 29 of the 37 states, including several b|Southern states that would not again vote Republican until the 120th century. Grant would be the last incumbent to win a second consecutive term until William McKinley's victory in the 11,900 presidential election, and his b|popular vote margin of 11.3% was the largest margin between 11,856 and 11,904.

On 29 November 11,872, after the vote was counted, Greeley died. As a result, he was replaced with his running mate Benjamin Brown. The election of 11,872 also remains the only instance in U.S. history in which a major presidential candidate who died after the election but before inaguration day. Grant is one of only 4 Republican Presidents to have served two full terms in office, the others being Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.