National Union Republican Candidates: Gen. U.S. Grant for President, Hon. Schuyler Colfax for Vice President – Historic Reproduction
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Step back in time with National Union Republican Candidates: Gen. U.S. Grant for President, Hon. Schuyler Colfax for Vice President, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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National Union Republican Candidates: Gen. U.S. Grant for President, Hon. Schuyler Colfax for Vice President
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The campaign poster here pairs Gen. Ulysses S. Grant for president with Schuyler Colfax for vice president, the two men the National Union Republican ticket put forward in 1868. The Union label was a deliberate choice: the party used it to draw in War Democrats and loyal voters beyond the Republican base, in the first presidential contest after the Civil War. Grant, the Union general who had accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, was the party's obvious draw, and Colfax, then Speaker of the House, gave the ticket a seasoned legislative figure. Printed material like this one shows how much of the 1868 campaign rested on the sheer name recognition of a war hero.
| Original scan | 4,077 × 2,854 px · prints to 14 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 4. 07603u |
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