Tennessee voted for the Liberal Republican candidate, Horace Greeley, over Republican candidate, Ulysses S. Grant. Greely won Tennessee by a margin of 4.32%. However, Greely died prior to the Electoral College meeting, allowing for Tennessee's twelve electors to vote for the candidate of their choice.[1]
Results
United States presidential election in Tennessee, 1872[2][3][4]
^"American presidential election, 1872". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
^"1872 Presidential General Election Results - Tennessee". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
^"1872 Presidential Election". The American Presidency Project. University of California Santa Barbara. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
^"Electoral Votes for President and Vice President 1869-1877". U.S. Electoral College. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
Footnotes
^ a bGreeley died after the election, but prior to the Electoral College meeting, and was thus ineligible for the office of President. Greeley had won 12 pledged electors, of which all cast their votes for other Democrats.