When your closest competitor dies before the electoral votes are cast, it's not really a competition. Name the 1872 presidential winner.
Answer Ulysses S. Grant
Because Grant was prone to cronyism in his appointments and his party's adherence to Reconstruction, factions of the Republicans split into the Liberal Republicans and garnered additional support from Democrats. Greeley, their nominee, captured forty-four percent of the popular vote but died before the electoral vote could be cast. Grant went on to easily win the election.
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