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| x United States presidential election, 2008 |
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Barack Obama | Nov 4, 2008 | President of the United States |
The 56th quadrennial United States presidential election was held on November 4, 2008. Outgoing Republican President George W. Bush's policies and actions and the American public's desire for change were key issues throughout the campaign, and...
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| x Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008 |
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Barack Obama | 2008 | President of the United States |
The 2008 Democratic presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Democratic Party of the United States chose their candidate for the 2008 United States presidential election. The Democratic Party candidate for president...
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| x Republican Party presidential primaries, 2008 |
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John McCain | 2008 | President of the United States |
This article refers to the selection process of the Republican U.S. presidential candidate in the 2008 general election. For results of specific primaries and caucuses, see Results of the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries.
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| x 2002 Libertarian Primary, California’s 13th Assembly District | Chris Maden | Mar 5, 2002 | California State Assemblymember | ||
| x 2002 Election, California’s 13th Assembly District | Mark Leno | Nov 5, 2002 | California State Assemblymember | ||
| x 2004 Libertarian Primary, California’s 12th Assembly District | Chris Maden | Mar 2, 2004 | California State Assemblymember | ||
| x 2004 Election, California’s 12th Assembly District | Leland Yee | Nov 2, 2004 | California State Assemblymember | ||
| x United States presidential election, 2000 |
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George W. Bush | Nov 7, 2000 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush (1989-1993), and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill...
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| x United States presidential election, 2004 |
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George W. Bush | Nov 2, 2004 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States' 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party...
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| x British Columbia general election, 2005 |
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The 38th British Columbia general election was held on May 17, 2005, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. The BC Liberal Party formed the government of the province prior to this general...
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| x Surrey Cloverdale Riding 2005 | 2005 | Member of the Legislative Assembly | |||
| x United Kingdom general election, 2001 |
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The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media. There was little change at all - outside Northern Ireland - with 620 out of 641 seats remaining unchanged. Labour enjoyed its second so-called ...
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| x United States presidential election, 1996 |
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Bill Clinton | 1996 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of...
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| x United Kingdom general election, 1997 |
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The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992. The Labour Party won the general election in a landslide victory with 418 seats, the most seats the party has ever held. The...
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| x United States presidential election, 1988 |
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George H. W. Bush | Nov 8, 1988 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1988 featured an open primary for both major parties. Ronald Reagan, the incumbent President, was vacating the position after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Reagan's...
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| x United States presidential election, 1876 |
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Rutherford B. Hayes | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1876 was one of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165...
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| x United States presidential election, 1789 |
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George Washington | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1789 was the first presidential election in the United States of America, and was the only one to not take place in an even numbered year. The election took place following the ratification of the United...
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| x United States presidential election, 1792 |
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George Washington | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1792 was the second presidential election in the United States, and the first in which each of the original 13 states appointed electors (in addition to newly added states Kentucky and Vermont). It is also...
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| x United States presidential election, 1796 |
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John Adams | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1796 was the first contested American presidential election and the only one to elect a President and Vice President from opposing tickets. It was also the first non-incumbent presidential election slated...
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| x United States presidential election, 1800 |
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Thomas Jefferson | President of the United States |
In the United States Presidential election of 1800, sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800," Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated incumbent president John Adams. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of...
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| x United States presidential election, 1804 |
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Thomas Jefferson | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1804 pitted incumbent Democratic-Republican President Thomas Jefferson against Federalist Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Jefferson easily defeated Pinckney in the first presidential election conducted...
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| x United States presidential election, 1808 |
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James Madison | President of the United States |
In the United States presidential election of 1808, the Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Madison had served as United States Secretary of State under incumbent Thomas Jefferson,...
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| x United States presidential election, 1812 |
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James Madison | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1812 took place in the shadow of the War of 1812. It featured an intriguing competition between incumbent Democratic-Republican President James Madison and a dissident Democratic-Republican, DeWitt Clinton,...
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| x United States presidential election, 1816 |
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James Monroe | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic-Republican James Madison. With the opposition Federalist Party in collapse, Madison's Secretary of State, James Monroe, was seen by many as pre...
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| x United States presidential election, 1824 |
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John Quincy Adams | President of the United States |
In the United States presidential election of 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825, after the election was decided by the House of Representatives. The previous few years had seen a one-party government in the United...
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| x United States presidential election, 1828 |
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Andrew Jackson | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1828 featured a rematch between incumbent President John Quincy Adams and chief rival Andrew Jackson. Incumbent Vice President John C. Calhoun had sided with the Jacksonians. Richard Rush was then the...
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| x United States presidential election, 1832 |
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Andrew Jackson | 1832 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1832 saw incumbent President Andrew Jackson, candidate of the Democratic Party, easily win reelection against Henry Clay of Kentucky. Jackson won 219 of the 286 electoral votes cast, defeating Clay, the...
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| x United States presidential election, 1836 |
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Martin Van Buren | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1836 is predominantly remembered for three reasons:
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Incumbent president Andrew Jackson decided to retire after two terms and supported his Vice President, Martin Van Buren. Although...
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| x United States presidential election, 1840 |
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William Henry Harrison | 1840 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1840 saw President Martin Van Buren fight for re-election against an economic depression and a Whig Party unified for the first time behind war hero William Henry Harrison. Rallying under the slogan ...
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| x United States presidential election, 1844 |
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James K. Polk | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1844 saw Democrat James Knox Polk defeat Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy, with Polk favoring the annexation of Texas and Clay opposed.
Democratic nominee James K. Polk ran...
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| x United States presidential election, 1848 |
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Zachary Taylor | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1848 was an open race. President James Polk, having achieved all of his major objectives in one term and suffering from declining health that would take his life less than four months after leaving office,...
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| x United States presidential election, 1852 |
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Franklin Pierce | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1852 was in many ways a replay of the election of 1844. Once again, the incumbent President was a Whig who had succeeded to the presidency upon the death of his war hero predecessor; in this case, it was...
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| x United States presidential election, 1856 |
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James Buchanan | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1856 was unusually heated. Republican candidate John C. Frémont condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and crusaded against the Slave Power and the expansion of slavery, while Democrat James Buchanan warned...
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| x United States presidential election, 1860 |
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Abraham Lincoln | Nov 6, 1860 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1860 set the stage for the American Civil War. The nation had been divided throughout most of the 1850s on questions of states' rights and slavery in the territories. In 1860 this issue finally came to a...
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| x United States presidential election, 1864 |
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Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States |
In the United States Presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president. Lincoln ran under the National Union banner against his former top Civil War general, the Democratic candidate, George B. McClellan. McClellan was the ...
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| x United States presidential election, 1868 |
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Ulysses S. Grant | Nov 3, 1868 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1868 was the first presidential election to take place during Reconstruction. Three of the former Confederate states (Texas, Mississippi, and Virginia) were not yet readmitted to the Union and therefore...
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| x United States presidential election, 1872 |
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Ulysses S. Grant | Nov 5, 1872 | President of the United States |
In the United States presidential election of 1872, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, leader of the Radical Republicans, was easily elected to a second term in office with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate, despite a...
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| x United States presidential election, 1880 |
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James Garfield | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1880 was largely seen as a referendum on the Republicans' relaxation of Reconstruction efforts in the southern states. There were no pressing issues of the day save tariffs, with the Republicans supporting...
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| x United States presidential election, 1884 |
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The United States presidential election of 1884 featured excessive mudslinging and personal acrimony. On November 4, 1884, New York Governor Grover Cleveland narrowly defeated Republican former United States Senator James G. Blaine of Maine to...
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| x United States presidential election, 1888 |
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The United States Presidential Election of 1888 was held on November 6, 1888. The tariff was the main issue in the election of 1888. Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate, opposed tariff reduction. Neither Cleveland nor the Democratic Party...
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| x United States presidential election, 1892 |
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The United States presidential election of 1892 was held on November 8, 1892. Former President Grover Cleveland returned to defeat incumbent President Benjamin Harrison, becoming the only person to be elected to non-consecutive presidential terms....
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| x United States presidential election, 1896 |
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The United States presidential election of November 3, 1896, saw Republican William McKinley defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan in a campaign considered by historians to be one of the most dramatic and complex in American history. In political...
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| x United States presidential election, 1900 |
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The United States presidential election of 1900 was held on November 6, 1900. It was a rematch of the 1896 race between Republican President William McKinley and his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan. The return of economic prosperity...
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| x United States presidential election, 1904 |
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The United States presidential election of 1904 was held on November 8, 1904. The Republican Party unanimously nominated incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt for president at their 1904 national convention. Roosevelt had succeeded to the...
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| x United States presidential election, 1908 |
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The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3, 1908. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close...
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| x United States presidential election, 1912 |
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The United States presidential election of 1912 was fought among three major candidates, two of whom were presidents. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of the conservative wing of the...
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| x United States presidential election, 1916 |
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The United States presidential election of 1916 took place while Europe was embroiled in World War I. Public sentiment in the still neutral United States leaned towards the British and French (allied) forces, due to the harsh treatment of civilians...
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| x United States presidential election, 1920 |
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The United States presidential election of 1920 was dominated by the aftermath of World War I and the hostile reaction to Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic president. The wartime boom had collapsed. Politicians were arguing over peace treaties and the...
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| x United States presidential election, 1924 |
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The United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent President Calvin Coolidge, the Republican candidate. Coolidge became president in 1923 following the death of then-incumbent president, Warren G. Harding. Coolidge was given credit...
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| x United States presidential election, 1928 |
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The United States presidential election of 1928 pitted Republican Herbert Hoover against Democrat Al Smith. The Republicans were identified with the booming economy of the 1920s, whereas Smith, a Roman Catholic, suffered politically from anti...
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| x United States presidential election, 1932 |
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The United States presidential election of 1932 took place as the effects of the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression were being felt intensely across the country. President Herbert Hoover's popularity was falling as voters felt he was...
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| x United States presidential election, 1936 |
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The United States presidential election of 1936 was the most lopsided presidential election in the history of the United States in terms of electoral votes. In terms of the popular vote, it was the third biggest victory since 1820.
The election took...
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| x United States presidential election, 1940 |
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The United States presidential election of 1940 was fought in the shadow of World War II as the United States was emerging from the Great Depression. Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), a Democrat, broke with tradition and ran for a...
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| x United States presidential election, 1944 |
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The United States presidential election of 1944 took place while the United States was preoccupied with fighting World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) had been in office longer than any other president, but remained popular. Unlike...
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| x United States presidential election, 1948 |
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The United States presidential election of 1948 is considered by most historians as the greatest election upset in American history. Virtually every prediction (with or without public opinion polls) indicated that incumbent President Harry S. Truman...
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| x United States presidential election, 1952 |
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The United States presidential election of 1952 took place in an era when Cold War tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly. In the United States Senate, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin had become...
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| x United States presidential election, 1956 |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1956 saw a popular Dwight D. Eisenhower successfully run for re-election. The 1956 election was a rematch of 1952, as Eisenhower's opponent in 1956 was Democrat Adlai Stevenson II, whom Eisenhower had...
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| x United States presidential election, 1960 |
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John F. Kennedy | Nov 8, 1960 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1960 marked the end of Dwight D. Eisenhower's two terms as President. Eisenhower's Vice President, Richard Nixon, who had transformed his office into a national political base, was the Republican candidate....
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| x United States presidential election, 1964 |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1964 was the sixth-most lopsided presidential election in the history of the United States behind the elections of 1936, 1984, 1972, 1864, and 1980 (in terms of electoral votes; in terms of popular vote, it...
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Richard Nixon | 1968 | President of the United States |
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial United States presidential election. It was a wrenching national experience, conducted against a backdrop that included the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther...
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