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Description: Broadside announcing a Ulysses S. Grant rally to be held at the Eaton, Ohio, City Hall on the evening of November 4, 1872, where Thomas Moore will deliver the last rallying speech of the presidential campaign. After his first term as president (1868-1872), the incumbent Grant won the 1872 election easily with fifty-six percent of the popular vote. Henry Wilson had replaced former vice president Schuyler Colfax, a controversial figure involved with the Crédit Mobilier of America scandal during his vice presidency. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS_2289
Subjects: Ohio Government; Presidents and Politics; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Presidential campaigns
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio);