On November 3rd, we will vote. Maybe you will like the voters' decision, or maybe you will not.   

Consider this presidential election in 1872. 

Elections and politics are fraught with dismay. 

                

                             Horace Greeley

We all know Horace Greeley's name, as he said, "Go West, young man; go West.

He also founded the New York Tribune and worked for the antislavery cause.

In the 1850s, he attended the Republican Party's first organizational meeting and supported John C. Fremont, its first presidential candidate. As we know, Fremont lost the election.

Four years later, he worked for Abraham Lincoln's election. Later, he supported the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, who became president after Lincoln's assassination.

In 1868, he campaigned for Ulysses S. Grant. Grant got tangled in financial scandals, so Greeley ran for president in 1872 on the Democratic Party's "clean the house" platform. His Republican friends said he was a fool and a crank.

On the eve of the election, his wife died.

On Election Day, voters turned out for his rival. Greeley dreaded the Electoral College vote in December 1872.

However, he never learned what the Electoral College would say, as in November, he had a breakdown of mind and body and died.

A few days later, the electors met; sixty-six voted for Greeley. They voted for a dead man.

Information from Shocking Secrets of American History by Bill Coate