[602] New York Post, May 2, 1872.
[603] New York Times, May 3.
[604] New York Evening Post, May 2, 1872.
[605] Ibid.
[606] New York Evening Post, May 4, 1872.
[607] Southern States, 104; Middle, 96; New England, 15; Western, 19; Pacific, 24.
| Whole number of votes | 714 |
| Necessary to a choice | 358 |
| First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | |
| Adams | 203 | 243 | 264 | 279 | 309 | 187 |
| Greeley | 147 | 245 | 258 | 251 | 258 | 482 |
| Trumbull | 110 | 148 | 156 | 141 | 91 | 10 |
| Davis | 92½ | 75 | 44 | 51 | 30 | 6 |
| Brown | 95 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Curtin | 62 | |||||
| Chase | 2½ | 1 | 2 | 29 |
[609] Merriam, Life of Bowles, Vol. 2, p. 210.