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Presidential History Ulysses S. Grant Middlesex Club Complimentary Dinner During the 1880 Republican Campaign

1880réf. 104971880. Middlesex Club. Complimentary Dinner to Gen. U.S. Grant 1880 records a Boston Republican gathering honoring Ulysses S. Grant four months after his unsuccessful attempt to secure the Republican presidential nomination for an unprecedented third term. Grant had returned to the United States in December 1879 after more than two years of international travel and entered the 1880 Republican convention as a leading candidate. He received 304 votes on the first ballot and remained near that total through thirty six ballots before James A. Garfield emerged as the nominee receiving 399 votes on the final ballot. The October dinner therefore belongs to the closing weeks of the 1880 presidential campaign rather than to Grant's nomination effort itself. Complimentary Dinner to Gen. U.S. Grant by the Middlesex Club at the Brunswick Boston Oct. 13 1880. Middlesex Club. Boston 1880. 11 x 17 inches. Printed seating chart identifying the dinner attendees and assigning their positions at the tables preserving the names and physical arrangement of participants at the event. Rather than simply announcing the dinner the chart records the composition of a political gathering organized around the former president during a presidential election in which Grant's continued standing within the Republican Party remained conspicuous despite his defeat at the national convention. Held less than three weeks before the November 2 presidential election the dinner documents Grant's public prominence during the campaign that elected Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. The named seating assignments permit study of the individuals gathered around Grant in Boston and may support further investigation of Republican political networks in Massachusetts during the 1880 election. Excellent condition. A substantive piece of Grant and Republican Party ephemera that preserves the personnel and seating organization of a precisely dated political dinner. unknown

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