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Liberal Republican Party  

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  • Dissatisfied with President Ulysses S. Grant's first term in office, a faction of the Republican Party split off in 1872 to form a new party. Composed of party reformers, as well as anti-Grant politicians and newspaper editors, the new party focused on the corruption of the Grant administration and the need for civil service reform and for an end to the Reconstruction policy in the South. [Source: Elections A to Z; Liberal Republican Party (1872)]

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