Horatio Seymour was an American politician. He served as the eighteenth Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and again from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 186
Portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1860–1865
Campaign rally celebrating Seymour's election
Seymour in an undated photograph
Campaign badge, 1868, from the New York Public Library, Schomberg Collection
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 1868. In the first election of the Reconstruction Era, Republican nominee Ulysses S. Grant defeated Horatio Seymour of the Democrat
Ulysses S Grant by Brady c 1870 restored
Hon. Horatio Seymour, N.Y NARA 528568
Andrew Johnson, the incumbent president in 1868, whose partial term expired on March 4, 1869