At the convention the Republicans nominated President Ulysses S. Grant for re-election, but nominated Senator Henry Wilson from Massachusetts for vice president instead of the incumbent Schuyler Colfax, although both were implicated in the Credit Mobilier scandal which erupted two months after the Republican convention. Others, who had grown weary of the corruption of the Grant administration, bolted to form the Liberal Republican Party.
At the convention the Republicans nominated President Ulysses S Grant for re-election but nominated Senator Henry Wilson from Massachusetts for vice president instead of the incumbent Schuyler Colfax although both were implicated in the Credit Mobilier scandal which erupted two months after the Republican convention Others who had grown weary of the corruption of the Grant administration bolted to form the Liberal Republican Party