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Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810 – February 12, 1886) was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 United States presidential election , losing to Republican Ulysses S. Grant .
5 days ago · Horatio Seymour (born May 31, 1810, Onondaga county, N.Y., U.S.—died Feb. 12, 1886, Utica, N.Y.) was a governor of New York and the Democratic candidate for president in 1868. Seymour was admitted to the New York state bar in 1832. He then served as military secretary to Governor William L. Marcy (1833–39), was a member of the New York ...
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Jun 11, 2018 · Horatio Seymour (1810-1886) was a Democratic leader in New York and a presidential candidate in 1868. He supported the Union during the Civil War but opposed Lincoln's policies and the Radical Republicans.
United States presidential election of 1868, American presidential election held on Nov. 3, 1868, in which Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeated Democrat Horatio Seymour. The election of 1868 was the first to be held after the American Civil War, and central to its outcome were the issues of
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Horatio Seymour served as New York governor twice, from 1853 to 1855 and from 1863 to 1865. He was also the Democratic nominee for president in 1868, but lost to Ulysses S. Grant.
Horatio Seymour was a moderate Democrat who opposed the Republican administration's policies on slavery, the draft, and civil rights. He served as governor of New York and ran against Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election.
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Horatio Seymour (1810–1886) was introduced to New York politics when he spent six years as Governor William Marcy’s Military Secretary. During Seymour’s first term as governor, he vetoed a bill prohibiting the sale of liquor and opposed anti-immigrant “nativism.”.
