Ford won the Republican nomination in 1976, but lost the election. 29. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) AP Van Buren received low rankings for his economic management. When he assumed the presidency, the economy
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Years served: Franklin Pierce, who succeeded Millard Fillmore, won the 1852 general election, the youngest to do so at the time. His presidency was marred by tensions over slavery and “bleeding Kansas,” a series of violent confrontations over the issue tha...
He ran as a Democrat in a district that had voted Republican for the past 32 years. Through hard campaigning and the help of his name, he won the seat in a Democratic landslide. As a state senator, Roosevelt opposed elements of the Democratic political machine in New York. This won him...
In only one case, Harding/Coolidge, does a Republican administration raise the maximum corporate tax rate. And in only one case out of the four times the maximum corporate tax was decreased was it done by a Democrat administration. The largest increase in the maximum of both taxes rates was...
RepublicanGerald R. Fordwas the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. He lost a campaign for reelection in 1976 to DemocratJimmy Carter, who went on to serve one term. "Ford was confronted with almost insuperable tasks," his White House biography states. "There we...
The House voted to impeach Johnson on February 24, 1868, three days after he dumped his secretary of war, a radical Republican named Edwin M. Stanton. Johnson's move followed repeated clashes with the Republican Congress over how to treat the South during theReconstructionprocess. The radical ...
Grover Cleveland, a Democrat born in 1837, was elected president and served from 1885 to 1889. He stood for election for a second term but was defeated by the Republican Benjamin Harrison, who served from 1889 to 1893. Cleveland, however, had not given up. He had another go, won, and ...
or "Republican". The value typically matches the political party of the legislator on the ballot in his or her last election, although for state affiliate parties such as "Democratic Farmer Labor" we will use the national party name ("Democrat") instead to keep the values of this field norm...
A member of the Whig party, which U.S. president was the last non-democrat or republican elected to office?Answer: Millard Fillmore. This U.S. president is the first and only independent candidate ever elected to office?Answer: George Washington ...