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List of One-Term U.S. Presidents - US Government - About.com  List of Incumbent U.S. Presidents Denied Re-Election ... There have been nearly a dozen one term presidents who ran for second terms but were ... months of Hoover's first election in 1928, and the United States plunged into The Great Depression. ... His party renominated him in 1892, but he was defeated by Cleveland.
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George Bush - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com  In 2000, Bush's son and namesake was elected the 43rd U.S. president; he ... In 1970, he ran for the U.S. Senate but again was defeated in the general election. ... In 1992, Bush lost his bid for re-election to Governor Bill Clinton (1946-) of Arkansas. ... (The first were John Adams, the second U.S. president, and John Quincy...
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5 Presidents Who Couldn't Secure A Second Term | Investopedia  Oct 18, 2016 ... On November 8th, 2016 will mark the end of two historic Presidential campaigns ... These U.S. presidents couldn't get re-elected because of policy, stiff ... If the reelection slips, he/she will be the first president since George...
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United States presidential election, 1792 - Wikipedia  The United States presidential election of 1792 was the second quadrennial presidential ... As in the first presidential election, Washington is considered to have run ... Vice President John Adams received 77 votes and was also re-elected ... he opposed the establishment of Hamilton's First Bank of the United States in 1791.
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United States presidential election, 1912 - Wikipedia  The United States presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, ... Roosevelt's first term as president (19011905) was incomplete, as he succeeded to the office upon the ..... Winning only 8 electoral votes, Taft suffered a worse defeat than any other president defeated for re-election.
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Has a losing vice presidential candidate ever run for and won the ...  Other than FDR, no. BUT...being the losing candidate for VP doesn't not necessarily mean ... Frank Knox, the defeated running mate of Alf Landon in 1936, later became ... When running for President of the USA, has there ever been a candidate that lost ... Delano Roosevelt was the losing vice Presidential candidate in 1920.
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List of United States Presidential firsts - Wikipedia  This list lists achievements and distinctions of various Presidents of the United States. ... First President to have a parent live to see them be elected and become ... First (former) President who was widowed (His wife Abigail died in 1818, and he ... First President to defeat a person (Adams) whom he had previously lost to in a...
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United States presidential election of 1972 - Britannica.com  Richard M. Nixon was elected to a second term, defeating Democrat George McGovern in one ... Results of the American presidential election, 1972 ... Muskie ran an exhausting campaign that stretched his energies and resources thin. ... McGovern, reaping the benefit of his early start and vigorous organization, was close...
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The Dumping of the President -- and the VP : NPR  Apr 7, 2004 ... Q: How many sitting presidents have been voted out of office? And how often has a sitting president dropped his VP before a run for a second term?  John ... In 1972, Republicans Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew were re-elected. ... At the 1968 Democratic convention, he pledged, "If elected, I will win.
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Grover Cleveland - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com  Grover Cleveland was the first U.S. president to serve two non-consecutive terms. ... In his second term, he angered many of his original supporters and seemed ... Stephen Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, on March 18, 1837. ... Cleveland did not fight in the American Civil War (1861-65); when the...
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Presidents' wives of the past | Backwoods Home Magazine  After four years in the White House, the Hayeses left and went back to Ohio. ... Next was Lucretia Garfield, the wife of James Garfield. .... And he refused to move into it until it was redecorated. .... She was the second First Lady to die in the White House and her death probably contributed more to her husband's defeat in the...
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Presidents of the United States, In the order in which they served ...  John Adams (1735-1826) was the second President of the USA, serving from 1797 to 1801. ... This great man was a long-term legislator, lawyer, diplomat, architect, inventor, .... Lincoln was assassinated shortly before the end of the Civil War. ... In 1888, Cleveland lost his bid for re-election to Benjamin Harrison but...
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Truman Library - George M. Elsey Oral History Interview, July 10, 1969  Turning now to the 1948 State of the Union. ... Truman had fought the 80th Congress with mixed success for two years, now he had an ... He obviously could not campaign for re-election and then in his first State of the ...... or the, or an adjective so that the official record in the President's possession would be as delivered. In.
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President Thomas E. Dewey (Dewey Elected) | Alternative History ...  In 1944 and 1948, he was the Republican candidate for President, losing the first election, ... While at the University of Michigan, he joined Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, .... In 1942, Dewey ran for governor again, and won with a large plurality over .... [20] Dewey was the only Republican to be nominated for President twice to win...
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Herbert Hoover - Wikipedia  Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874  October 20, 1964) was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. ... He was defeated in a landslide in 1932 by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, and spent ... In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican...
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Who were his opponents in his four presidential elections? - The ...  In the 1932 election, Roosevelt defeated incumbent Republican president Herbert Hoover, ... In the 1936 election, Roosevelt defeated Alf Landon, the governor of Kansas, ... In the 1940 election, Roosevelt won over Wendell Wilkie, a Republican from Indiana. ... Roosevelt beat Dewey by an electoral vote count of 432 to 99.
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President With Facial Hair - List - US Politics - About.com  Abraham Lincoln was the first bearded president of the United States. ... Grant was the second bearded president. Before he was elected, Grant was known to wear his beard in a manner that was described as both "wild" and "shaggy" during...
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COURSE CORRECTIONS: A MIDTERM THEORY : Larry J. Sabato's ...  Jun 6, 2013 ... Typically, the incumbent president's party loses House seats, ... which in 1986 elected Richard Shelby (D) to replace freshman Sen. ... White House amid a terrible economy and an unpopular incumbent president. ... Frank Lautenberg (D). ... independent, and Republican Rick Scott won the governor's race.
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Biggest Losers: Michael Dukakis and the election of 1988.  www ...  Mar 13, 2015 ... Though Vice President George H.W. Bush seemed the likeliest claimant of the ... Bush was much more of an ideological moderate than Reagan, he had zero ... Dukakis had served twice as Governor of Massachusetts, elected first in ... After the election Dukakis retired as Governor and became a college...
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Presidential Fun Facts - Little Known Facts  THE OLDEST president inaugurated was Reagan (age 69); the youngest was ... FOURTEEN PRESIDENTS served as vice presidents: J. Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren .... Was first man elected from Tennessee to the House of Representatives, and he .... He lost the 1888 election for second term to Benjamin Harrison, despite...
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Full Page/Print - Booknotes  One observer described that he--his head looked like that of a child. ... LAMB: J--Andrew Jackson got 99 electoral votes and Andrew--and John Quincy Adams got 84. ... He ran for president two more times and was soundly defeated both times to ... And Randolph in the House--sorry, in the Senate one day in the spring of...