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
Carl Schurz
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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
Liberal Republican Party (United States)
…S. Grant and his Radical Republican supporters in the presidential election of 1872. The party emerged in Missouri under the leadership of Senator Carl Schurz and soon attracted other opponents of Grant; the Liberal Republicans decried the scandals of the Grant administration and sought civil service reform…
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](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Carl_Schurz_-_DPLA_-_36c27a586a55f8910cd43bf2be7f08a7_%28page_1%29.jpg/500px-Carl_Schurz_-_DPLA_-_36c27a586a55f8910cd43bf2be7f08a7_%28page_1%29.jpg)
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