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
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
Civil service reform in the United States was a major issue in the late 19th century at the national level, and in the early 20th century at the state level. Proponents denounced the distribution of g
Carl Schurz, founder of the Liberal Republican Party and prominent advocate of civil service reform.
President Ulysses S. Grant
The Mugwumps were Republicans who refused to support Republican presidential candidate James G. Blaine in 1884.
Cartoonist Thomas Nast of Harper's Weekly was a leading Mugwump strongly opposed to Blaine.