(Thursday, July 9, 1868, 12:30 p.m. local time) — Former Governor
Horatio Seymour of New York was unanimously nominated for President of the United States on the 22nd ballot (after shifts) today at the 1868 Democratic National Convention meeting at Tammany Hall in New York City.

The unpopular incumbent, President Andrew Johnson, having narrowly survived impeachment two months ago, won 65 votes on the first ballot, less than one-third of the total necessary for nomination, and thus lost his bid for election as president in his own right.

The delegates unanimously nominated General Francis Preston Blair, Jr. for vice-president on the first ballot after the names of Augustus C. Dodge and Thomas Ewing, Jr. were withdrawn from consideration.

The Seymour-Blair Democratic ticket would oppose the Republican ticket of General Ulysses S. Grant and House Speaker Schuyler Colfax (nominated in May 1868) in the United States presidential election, 1868.