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When Schuyler Colfax was Ulysses S. Grant's running mate, who did they run against?

  • Robert Kennedy and John Marshall

  • Horatio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair Jr.

  • Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew

  • James Monroe and Francis Preston Blair Jr.

Answer

Schuyler Colfax was Ulysses S. Grant's running mate in the 1868 presidential election. The Republican ticket faced Horatio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair Jr., the Democratic nominees. Grant and Colfax won by a wide margin, taking 57% of the popular vote and 214 electoral votes to Seymour and Blair's 43% and 80 electoral votes.
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