So today is my birthday...

[Rowdyboy]

58. It was a really weird time in American politics....many Democrats were southerners who couldn't

vote after they rebelled. Radical Repubs split off from the main party and since Democrats knew they were going to creamed decided to go with them. Like I said, it was a really weird time in history.

God yes, I'll admit I'm old as hell. And loving every minute of it!

In the words of Auntie Mame "Life is a banquet and some poor fools are starving to death!"

Cheers!

See here for more blah blah blah (I have the soul of a reference librarian, I can't help myself)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1872

In the United States presidential election of 1872, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant was easily elected to a second term in office with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate, despite a split within the Republican Party that resulted in a defection of many Liberal Republicans to opponent Horace Greeley. The other major political party, the Democratic Party, also nominated the candidates of the Liberal Republican ticket that year.

On November 29, 1872, after the popular vote, but before the Electoral College cast its votes, Greeley died. As a result, electors previously committed to Greeley voted for four different candidates for president, and eight different candidates for vice-president. Greeley himself received three posthumous electoral votes, but these votes were disallowed by Congress. It is so far the only election in which a presidential candidate died during the electoral process.