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Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810 – February 12, 1886) was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 United States presidential election , losing to Republican Ulysses S. Grant .
May 27, 2024 · Horatio Seymour was a governor of New York and the Democratic candidate for president in 1868. Seymour was admitted to the New York state bar in 1832. He then served as military secretary to Governor William L. Marcy (1833–39), was a member of the New York Assembly (1842–46), and was elected mayor.
New York Governor Horatio Seymour, who first supported Thomas A. Hendricks and then Salmon P. Chase for the 1868 Democratic presidential nomination, was selected as the chairman of this convention.
Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810 – February 12, 1886) was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 United States presidential election, losing to Republican Ulysses S. Grant.
Horatio Seymour served as New York governor twice, from 1853 to 1855 and from 1863 to 1865. He was also the Democratic nominee for president in 1868, but lost to Ulysses S. Grant.
How did Horatio Seymour, the Democratic governor of New York, win the 1862 election amid the Civil War? This chapter reevaluates his campaign and the Democratic Party's stance on the Union war.
The home of Horatio Seymour’s forbears, before emigrating to New England, was at Sawbridgeworth, County Herts, England. Here in parish registers of the old church the baptisms, marriages
