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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.
George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as president and John Adams became the first vice president. This was the only U.S. presidential election that spanned two calendar years without a contingent election and the first national presidential election in American history.
The United States presidential election of that year was scheduled for November 1 to December 4, but Smith was killed in Carthage, Illinois, on June 27. Smith was the first Latter Day Saint to seek the presidency, and the first American presidential candidate to be assassinated. [1]
In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt became the first presidential candidate to appear at a convention to accept his nomination in person. And in 1948, Harry Truman actively campaigned across the country ...
The first U.S. presidential election was held over a period of weeks from December 1788 to January 1789. Washington was elected with 69 of the 69 first-round votes cast in the United States Electoral College. With this election, he became the only U.S. president to be unanimously chosen. [7] [8] No popular vote totals are listed in this table.
A historical marker outside the Homer Public Library in Licking County, Ohio describes Woodhull as the "First Woman Candidate For President of the United States." [78] There is a memorial clock tower in her honor at the Robbins Hunter Museum, Granville, Ohio. A likeness of Victoria made of linden wood appears on the hours. [79]
First president to defeat an opponent he had previously lost to in a presidential election. [25]: 48 First president who defeated an incumbent president. [25]: 48 First president whose election was decided in the United States House of Representatives. [47] First president to have an inaugural parade; occurred during his second inauguration.
They were the first women voted for as candidates for president at the national convention of a major American political party. [9] Former Wyoming Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross was a candidate for vice president at the 1928 Democratic National Convention. Her name was mentioned as a potential candidate as early as 1927, and the possibility of her ...