Carl Christian Schurz was a German-American revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848–1849 and became a p
Portrait by Mathew Brady c. 1869–1875
Carl Schurz as a young man
Carl Schurz, [c. 1859–1870]. Carte de Visite Collection, Boston Public Library
"For freedom in Germany and America": West German commemorative stamp featuring Schurz for the United States Bicentennial, 1976
The Liberal Republican Party was an American political party that was organized in May 1872 to oppose the reelection of President Ulysses S. Grant and his Radical Republican supporters in the presiden
Carl Schurz
…a prominent member of the newly-forming Republican Party. After serving as a Union general in the American Civil War, he helped found the short-lived Liberal Republican Party and became a prominent advocate of civil-service reform. Schurz represented Missouri in the United States Senate and served as the 13th United States…
Liberal Republican campaign poster
Interior of the convention hall during the announcement of Horace Greeley as the party's nominee for president in 1872
Liberal Republican "conspirators" in a political cartoon from Harper's Weekly of March 16, 1872