In the 1868 presidential election, Republican nominee Ulysses S. Grant defeated Democratic candidate Horatio Seymour.

No Ohioan has been a presidential nominee since, but Ohio earlier dominated the presidential landscape. Over the period 1868 to 1920, Ohioans won nine of the fourteen presidential elections: two ...

In election after election, Northern and Western voters made it clear that, while they would support enfranchising black men in the South, they had little interest in adding them to the electorate in ...

In the 1868 presidential election, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the office with the slogan, "Let Us Have Peace." Republicans also won a majority in Congress.

In 1868, at the height of the Reconstruction, the pressing issue was Black male suffrage. Every election season in the United States revolves around a set of issues—health care, foreign affairs ...