Daily Quiz for July 15, 2012

Horace Greeley, staunch abolitionist and founder and editor of the New York Tribune. Greeley ran against Ulysses Grant during Grant’s bid for a second term. Greeley was badly beaten. A week before the election, his wife died. Exhausted by grief and the strain of a very negative campaign, Greeley ended up in a mental hospital where he died on November 29, 1872, just 24 days after the election.