Brown, Benjamin Gratz (1826-1885), was a candidate for vice president of the United States in 1872. He and presidential candidate Horace Greeley represented both the Democratic Party and the Liberal Republicans, a group that split from the Republican Party. They lost to the Republican candidates, President Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson. Brown was a Republican U.S. senator from Missouri from 1863 to 1867, filling an unexpired term. He was governor of Missouri from 1871 to 1873. Brown was born on May 28, 1826, in Lexington, Kentucky. He was usually called B. Gratz Brown or Gratz Brown. He died on Dec. 13, 1885.
