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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1976. The Democratic ticket of Jimmy Carter, the former governor of Georgia, and his running mate Walter Mondale, the senior senator from Minnesota, narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of Gerald Ford, the incumbent president, and his running mate Bob Dole, the junior senator from Kansas.
President-elect Carter and Rosalynn Carter meets with outgoing President Gerald Ford and First lady Betty Ford. The presidential transition of Jimmy Carter was the first systematic exercise in transition planning. He started his effort in the spring of 1976 when he became the presumptive Democratic nominee. [86]
The Democratic Party won the presidential election and retained control of Congress. [1] Former Democratic Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated Republican incumbent President Gerald Ford. [2] Carter won the popular vote by two points and finished with 297 electoral votes, taking a mix of Southern and Northern states.
Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. ... Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 ...
Carter endorsed Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic nominee, days before the 2000 presidential election, [413] and in subsequent years voiced his opinion that Gore won the election, [414] despite Republican nominee George W. Bush having been certified the victor following the Supreme Court's ruling in Bush v.
President Jimmy Carter with Rev Martin Luther King Sr, Georgia, 1976. Credit - PhotoQuest/Getty Images. T he career of Jimmy Carter, the U.S. President who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, will be ...
The 1976 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on November 2, 1976. The Democratic candidate, former Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter, overwhelmingly won his home state with 66.74% of the vote ahead of the Republican Party candidate, incumbent President Gerald Ford, giving him the state's 12 electoral votes.
In the fall race against President Gerald Ford ... President Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, photographed at the ...