1872 Liberal Republican convention

1872 Liberal Republican National Convention

1872 presidential election
Nominees Greeley and Brown
Convention
Date(s)	May 1–3, 1872
City	Cincinnati, Ohio
Candidates
Presidential nominee	Horace Greeley of New York
Vice-presidential nominee	Benjamin Gratz Brown of Missouri

An influential group of dissident Republicans split from the party to form the Liberal Republican Party in 1870. At the party's only national convention, held in Cincinnati in 1872, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley was nominated for president on the sixth ballot, defeating Charles Francis Adams. Missouri Governor Benjamin Gratz Brown was nominated for vice-president on the second ballot. They were also nominated at the 1872 Democratic National Convention two months later.^[1]