presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm, c. 1972. With the motto “unbought and unbossed,” Chisholm ran for president four years after Mitchell. She had already made history when she became the first African American congresswoman in 1968, after having served in the New York State Assembly. In...
Swalwell mounted a primary challenge against fellow Democrat and 20-term incumbent Pete Stark in the state's 15th Congressional District, located in the outer suburbs of San Francisco. Although Stark bested him in the primary election, Swalwell beat the incumbent in the general election, which he...
Who founded the Anti-Suffrage Party in 1871? Who founded the Communist party in Russian Revolution? Who ran for the Democrats in the presidential election of 1904? Who created direct democracy? Who first used a donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party?
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in private law for more than a decade, he successfully ran for a seat in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served for four years until his successful bid for Congress in 1992. Inslee represented the state's 4th Congressional district for one term until his reelection bid was ...
Lloyd Bentsen was the Democratic vice presidential nominee 1984: Republican Vice President George H.W. Bush won reelection 1980: Former Rep. George H.W. Bush was GOP vice presidential nominee; former Democratic Gov. John Connally ran in the Republican primary 1976: Bentsen 1972:...
Socialist Workers Party: 1972 In states where SWP candidate Linda Jenness was not accepted for the ballot because she was under the Constitutional age for qualifying for the presidency, Evelyn Reed ran in her place. Reed was a longtime American Communist Party activist in the U.S. and active...
Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate in the 1912 election, drawing votes away from Taft; in the end, both were defeated by Woodrow Wilson. But that didn’t end the Ohioan’s life in the public arena. He went on to become chief justice of the United States in 1921, making him the...
In the final sprint to Election Day, Johnson stressed that the road to the House majority runs through the suburban stretch east of New York City. He praised the energy at the Nassau GOP-hosted gathering, saying it was second only to that at Trump’sMadison Square Garden rallylast Sund...
It wasstill getting coverage on Monday. And it won him the day. Sure, you can parse the realness of it all: it wasn’t. But are the low-information voters who will decide the election doing that? And how real can any high-security campaign stop be in an age in which one of t...