Ulysses S. Grant Republican Ulysses S. Grant Republican The 1872 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 5, 1872.

Maryland was won by the Liberal Republican and Democratic nominees, former Congressman Horace Greeley of New York and his running mate former Senator and Governor Benjamin Gratz Brown of Missouri.

Greely and Brown defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois and his running mate Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts.

Greeley won the state by a narrow margin of 0.68%.

[1] In this election, Maryland voted 12.49% more Democratic than the nation at-large.