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

Massachusetts was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois and his running mate Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts.

Grant and Wilson defeated 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 by a margin of 38.51%.

With 69.20% of the popular vote, Massachusetts would be Grant's fifth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, South Carolina, Rhode Island and Nebraska.

[2] This is the last election in which Brighton, Charlestown, and West Roxbury voted in, as all three were annexed by the city of Boston in 1873.