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In 1868 President Andrew Johnson failed to capture the Democratic Presidential nomination and the Democratic National Convention saw 21 ballots taken with no candidate emerging as a consensus favourite.
During the 22nd ballot, Horatio Seymour was nominated, despite his continued refusal to accept the nomination. The Convention however went ahead and unanimously nominated him as the Democratic Presidential Candidate.
General Francis Preston Blair, Jr. was nominated unanimously for Vice President on the first ballot.
Seymour ran a very close race, but was eventually defeated by General Ulysses S. Grant, who became the eighteenth President of the United States in 1869.
