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- I am a retired professor of math and computer science having taught for 36 years at a state supported university in Virginia. George H. W. Bush defeated Dukakis in 1988.
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1940 Presidential Election The subsequent passing of the 22nd Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1947 renders this election the only occasion in American history in which a candidate was elected to a third term as president (Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term in 1944, but he died only a few months into that term).
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- 1920 campaign poster featuring Democrat presidential nominee James M Cox and Franklin D Roosevelt. Roosevelt's skills had not gone unnoticed. In 1920 he was asked to stand for vice-president – the youngest man ever to run for that office. But in the aftermath of the First World War, public opinion stood firmly against US involvement in the League of Nations, the brainchild of outgoing President Woodrow Wilson.
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FDR nominated for unprecedented third term The president went on to defeat Republican Wendell Wilkie in the general election, and his third term in office was dominated by America’s involvement in World War II. In 1944, with the war still in progress, Roosevelt defeated New York governor Thomas Dewey for a fourth term in office.
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Topics in Chronicling America - The Presidential Election of 1900: McKinley-Roosevelt vs. Bryan-Stevenson 1 June 21, 1900: Incumbent McKinley receives the Republican nomination. 2  Theodore Roosevelt is named as his Vice Presidential running mate. 3  July 6, 1900: William Jennings Bryan is chosen as the Democratic nominee, with Adlai Stevenson as his running mate. 4  November 6, 1900: McKinley wins the general election.
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- Michael Stanley Dukakis (/dʊˈkɑːkɪs/; born November 3, 1933) is an American politician who served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991 respectively. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history, after Spiro Agnew.
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- New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, riding in a car on Wall Street, campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968. (Library of Congress) ‘Rockefeller Republicans’ are scarce in New York these days
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49f. Roosevelt's Critics Advocating a program to share the wealth, U.S. Senator from Louisiana Huey Kingfish Long in August 1935 announced his intention to run for President against FDR, but an assassin's bullet ended his life less than a month later.
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Topics in Chronicling America - The Presidential Election of 1900: McKinley-Roosevelt vs. Bryan-Stevenson 1 Theodore Roosevelt is named as his Vice Presidential running mate. 2  July 6, 1900: William Jennings Bryan is chosen as the Democratic nominee, with Adlai Stevenson as his running mate. 3  November 6, 1900: McKinley wins the general election.
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William McKinley - Twenty-Fifth President of the United States In 1896, William McKinley was nominated to run for president for the Republican Party with Garret Hobart as his running mate. He was opposed by William Jennings Bryan who during his acceptance to the nomination gave his famous Cross of Gold speech where he spoke against the gold standard.
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- Michael Stanley Dukakis (/duˈkɑːkɪs/; born November 3, 1933) is an American politician who served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991 respectively.
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- After two terms as vice president under Reagan, Bush became the Republican presidential nominee in 1988. With running mate Dan Quayle (1947-), a U.S. senator from Indiana, Bush defeated Democratic challenger Governor Michael Dukakis (1933-) of Massachusetts and his running mate Lloyd Bentsen (1921-2006).
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Wood Linoleum Easy-to-clean linoleum is available in sheets or tiles in a broad range of colors. Many consumers confuse linoleum with vinyl, but vinyl is a synthetic material with a pattern imprinted on the surface, while linoleum is all-natural with color throughout. hgtvremodels.com.
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- Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as governor of New York when he was elected as the nation’s 32nd president in 1932.n 1924, Franklin made a triumphant public appearance at the Democratic National Convention to nominate New York’s Governor Alfred E. Smith for president (though Smith lost the nomination and the Democrats lost the general election).
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Bob Dole goes home HIAWATHA, Kan. — When Bob Dole ran for president in 1996 at the age of 73, Democrats derided him as a relic and a man out of place in the electronic age. Late-night comics mocked him, he tumbled off a stage and President Bill Clinton charged in his convention speech that Dole wanted to “build a bridge to the past.”.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower The United States presidential election of 1956 was held on November 6, 1956. Eisenhower, the popular incumbent, successfully ran for re-election. The election was a re-match of 1952, as his opponent in 1956 was Stevenson, a former Illinois governor, whom Eisenhower had defeated four years earlier.
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Presidential Elections In 1991 incumbent President George H. W. Bush’s approval ratings reached 88 percent, the highest in presidential history up to that point. But by 1992, his ratings had sunk, and Bush became the fourth sitting U.S. president to lose re-election.
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- Johnson’s political career began in 1829, when he was elected alderman in Greeneville. That same year, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), a fellow Democrat and Tennessean, became the seventh U.S. president. Like Jackson, Johnson considered himself as a champion of the common man. He was resentful of rich planters and favored states’ rights and populist policies.
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President Thomas E. Dewey (Dewey Elected) President Thomas E. Dewey (Dewey Elected) {{{2}}}]] Thomas Troy Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was the 34th President of The United States (1949-1953). and the governor of New York (1943 – 1954). In 1944 and 1948, he was the Republican candidate for President, losing the first election, and winning the latter.
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2000 Presidential Election 266. 50,996,582. 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.66. 50,996,582. 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.
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10 Things You Might Not Know About Lyndon B. Johnson Johnson worked hard and rose quickly, winning special election to the U.S. House in 1937 when a congressman in his district died in office. In 1941, he ran for Senate in another special election, but lost. He tried again in 1948, squaring off against the popular Texas governor Coke Stevenson in the Democratic primary.
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- Robert F. Kennedy. U.S. Senator from New York. The Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign began on March 16, 1968. Robert Francis Kennedy, a U.S. Senator from New York who won a Senate seat in 1964, faced what was widely considered an unrealistic race against an incumbent, President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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- In 1920, Roosevelt ran for vice president alongside presidential candidate James M. Cox but the Cox/Roosevelt ticket lost to the Republican ticket of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Roosevelt was stricken with polio in 1921, which cost him the use of his legs and put his political career on hold for several years.
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Biography Born Michael Stanley Dukakis on November 3, 1933 to Greek-immigrant parents in Brookline, Massachusetts (the birthplace of both John F. Kennedy and his 1988 Presidential opponent Bush). Dukakis' father was a Harvard-educated physician and his mother was a Massachusetts schoolteacher.
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John Kasich Biography John Kasich was first elected Congressman from Ohio's 12th district in 1982. In 1999 he announced his intention to run for president, on a platform including a 10% cut in federal income taxes. Kasich never formally declared his candidacy and gave up the bid in July of 1999.
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- At the Democratic National Convention of 1924, Franklin Roosevelt finally made a return to the political stage. He was given the honor of placing Alfred Smith as the nominee for President of the United States. In his nomination speech, he referred to Smith as The Happy Warrior..