Second Administration
Inauguration:
March 4, 1873; The Capitol, Washington, D.C.
Vice President:
Henry Wilson
Secretary of State:
Hamilton Fish
Secretary of the Treasury:
William A. Richardson; Benjamin H. Bristow (from June 4, 1874); Lot M. Morrill (from July 7, 1876)
Secretary of War:
William W. Belknap; Alphonso Taft (from March 11, 1876); James D. Cameron (from June 1, 1876)
Attorney General:
George H. Williams; Edward Pierrepont (from May 15, 1875); Alphonso Taft (from June 1, 1876)
Postmaster General:
John A. J. Creswell; James W. Marshall (from July 7, 1874); Marshall Jewell (from September 1, 1874); James N. Tyner (from July 12, 1876)
Secretary of the Navy:
George M. Robeson
Secretary of the Interior:
Columbus Delano; Zachariah Chandler (from October 19, 1875)
Supreme Court Appointment:
Morrison R. Waite, Chief Justice (1874)
Congress #43
(December 1, 1873-March 3, 1875):
Senate:
54 Republicans; 19 Democrats
House:
203 Republicans; 88 Democrats
Congress #44
(December 6, 1875-March 3, 1877):
Senate:
46 Republicans; 29 Democrats
House:
181 Republicans; 107 Democrats
State Admitted:
Colorado (1876)
| Election of 1872
| | (Horace Greeley died shortly after the election, and the 63 electoral votes he had won were cast for several Democratic candidates)
| | Candidates
| Electoral Vote
|
| Popular Vote
| Ulysses S. Grant
(Republican)
| 286
|
| 3,596,235
| Horace Greeley
(Liberal Republican)
| 63
|
| 2,934,791
|
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