[Politics – Massachusetts – Liberal Republican Party]

Liberal Republican Ticket. For Governor, Alexander H. Bullock, of Worcester […]

1872: Rockwell and Hollins. Printed broadside measuring 5 ¼ x 10 inches. Very good with some toning and wear. Item #List3434

A broadside for the Massachusetts ticket of the short-lived Liberal Republican Party, which emerged as a splinter group of the Republican Party in 1872, in opposition to the Grant administration. The Massachusetts ticket featured Alexander Bullock as the candidate for Governor, who was seeking re-election after three years out of office. Following the 1872 elections and the failed campaign of presidential nominee Horace Greeley, the party ceased to exist. We find few ephemeral traces of the party apart from Greely-related material, with no records of this piece either in OCLC or at AAS, and no party-related ephemera on the market at the time of this writing.

References:
Ari Hoogenboom, “The Liberal Republican Movement of 1872,” Journal of American History 51, no. 3 (December 1964): 414–432.

Price: $275.00