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Which presidential candidate did Charles Sumner support in the 1872 election?

  • Ulysses S. Grant

  • Horace Greeley

  • Rutherford B. Hayes

  • Samuel J. Tilden

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Charles Sumner supported Liberal Republican candidate Horace Greeley in the 1872 presidential election. He opposed the re-election of President Ulysses S. Grant due to their disagreements and his belief that Grant was a corrupt despot.
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