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Senator William Borah of Idaho (died January 19, 1940) Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio; Representative Hamilton Fish III of New York (withdrew from consideration February 25, 1940) Businessman Henry Ford of Michigan; Former University President Glenn Frank of Wisconsin (ran for U.S. Senate and died September 15, 1940) Senator Hiram Johnson of ...
The 1940 Republican National Convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from June 24 to June 28, 1940. It nominated Wendell Willkie of New York for president and Senator Charles McNary of Oregon for vice president. The contest for the 1940 Republican presidential nomination was wide-open.
There were no major party candidates for president in the presidential election of 1789 and the presidential election of 1792, [c] both of which were won by George Washington. [4] In the 1812 presidential election , DeWitt Clinton served as the de facto Federalist nominee even though he was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party; Clinton ...
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
2 This convention was known as the National Union Republican Convention. 3 Sherman, who had been elected vice president in 1908, died six days before the 1912 election; he was subsequently replaced as Republican vice-presidential nominee by Nicholas M. Butler of New York.
Presidential nominee 1856 (lost) Vice presidential nominee John C. Frémont of CA (1813–1890) Prior public experience. Governor of California (1847) Shadow Senator (1849–1850) U.S. Senate (1850–1851) Higher education. College of Charleston; Prior public experience. Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1838–1841) U.S ...
Lincoln was attending a play at Ford's Theatre five days after the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the American Civil War.Booth, a well-known actor and a Confederate sympathizer, was allowed into the president's box where he waited at the back until the audience laughed, hoping it would mask the sound of his gun.
Many important candidates are not shown here because they were never endorsed by a national party convention (e.g. William Henry Harrison in 1836, George C. Wallace in 1968, John B. Anderson in 1980 and Ross Perot in 1992); for a list by year of all notable candidates (at least one Elector or 0.1% of the popular vote), please see List of United ...