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Title

Presidential also-rans and running mates, 1788 through 1996 / compiled by Leslie H. Southwick.

Author

Southwick, Leslie H., 1950-

Publication

Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., c1998.

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Description

xviii, 830 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

This is a greatly expanded and now illustrated second edition of a "Best Reference Book of the Year" (1984) acclaimed by the American Library Association. It provides detailed biographies of the 95 United States major party and significant third-party nominees who were never elected president or vice president in the 53 quadrennial elections from 1788/89 through 1996. New to this fully updated edition are biographies of nominees since 1984 as well as 41 historic third-tier candidates who received at least 2 percent of the popular vote or 5 percent of the electoral votes - and portraits or photographs of every single nominee.

Subject

• USA Präsident
• Presidents > United States > History
• Presidential candidates > United States > Biography
• Vice-presidential candidates > United States > Biography
• Vice-presidents > United States > History
• United States > Politics and government

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 805-806) and index.

Contents

• 1788-1789. No Party Affiliations. John Jay. Robert Harrison. John Rutledge. John Hancock -- 1792. Anti-Federalist. George Clinton -- 1796. Democratic-Republican. Thomas Jefferson. Federalist. Thomas Pinckney. Democratic-Republican. Aaron Burr. Samuel Adams. Federalist. Oliver Ellsworth -- 1800. Federalist. John Adam. Charles C. Pinckney -- 1804. Federalist. Charles C. Pinckney. Rufus King -- 1808. Federalist. Charles C. Pinckney. Rufus King -- 1812. Federalist. DeWitt Clinton. Jared Ingersoll. Democratic-Republican. John Langdon -- 1816. Federalist. Rufus King. John E. Howard -- 1820. (Election summary -- no losing candidates) -- 1824. Democratic-Republican. Andrew Jackson. William H. Crawford. Henry Clay. William Lowndes. John C. Calhoun. Nathan Sanford. Nathaniel Macon. Albert Gallatin -- 1828. National Republican. John Quincy Adams. Richard Rush --^
• 1832. National Republican. Henry Clay. John Sergeant. Anti-Masonic Party. William Wirt. Amos Ellmaker. Democratic-Republican. William Wilkins -- 1836. Whig. William Henry Harrison. Hugh White. John Tyler. Whig. Daniel Webster. John McLean. Francis Granger. Philip P. Barbour. Democratic. William Smith -- 1840. Democratic. Martin Van Buren. Richard M. Johnson -- 1844. Whig. Henry Clay. Theodore Frelinghuysen. Democratic. Silas Wright. Liberty. James G. Birney. Thomas Morris -- 1848. Democratic. Lewis Cass. William O. Butler. Free-Soil. Martin Van Buren. Charles Francis Adams -- 1852. Whig. Winfield Scott. William A. Graham. Free-Soil. John Hale. George Washington Julian -- 1856. Republican. John Charles Fremont. William L. Dayton. American and Whig. Millard Fillmore. Andrew Jackson Donelson -- 1860. Democratic. Stephen A. Douglas. Benjamin Fitzpatrick. Herchell V. Johnson. National Democratic. John C. Breckinridge. Joseph Lane. Constitutional Union. John Bell. Edward Everett --^
• 1861. (Summary -- presidential elections of Confederate States of America) -- 1864. Democratic. George B. McClellan. George H. Pendleton -- 1868. Democratic. Horatio Seymour. Francis P. Blair, Jr. -- 1872. Liberal Republican/Democratic. Horace Greeley. B. Gratz Brown. Thomas A. Hendricks -- 1876. Democratic. Samuel J. Tilden. Thomas A. Hendricks -- 1880. Democratic. Winfield Scott Hancock. William H. English. Greenback. James B. Weaver. B.J. Chambers -- 1884. Republican. James G. Blaine. John A. Logan -- 1888. Democratic. Grover Cleveland. Allen G. Thurman. Prohibition. Clinton Fisk. John A. Brooks -- 1892. Republican. Benjamin Harrison. Whitelaw Reid. Populist. James B. Weaver. James G. Field. Prohibition. John Bidwell. James Cranfill -- 1896. Democratic. William Jennings Bryan [also Populist]. Arthur Sewall. Populist. Thomas E. Watson -- 1900. Democratic. William Jennings Bryan. Adlai Stevenson --^
• 1904. Democratic. Alton B. Parker. Henry G. Davis. Socialist. Eugene Debs. Benjamin Hanford -- 1908. Democratic. William Jennings Bryan. John W. Kern. Socialist. Eugene Deb. Benjamin Hanford -- 1912. Progressive. Theodore Roosevelt. Hiram Johnson. Republican. William Howard Taft. James S. Sherman. Nicholas M. Butler. Socialist. Eugene Debs. Emil Seidel -- 1916. Republican. Charles Evans Hughes. Charles W. Fairbanks. Socialist. Allan Benson. George Kirkpatrick -- 1920. Democratic. James M. Cox. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Socialist. Eugene Debs. Seymour Stedman -- 1924. Democratic. John W. Davis. Charles W. Bryan. Progressive. Robert M. La Follette. Burton K. Wheeler. Republican. Frank Lowden -- 1928. Democratic. Alfred E. Smith. Joseph T. Robinson -- 1932. Republican. Herbert Hoover. Charles Curtis. Socialist. Norman Thomas. James Maurer -- 1936. Republican. Alfred M. Landon. Frank Knox. Union. William Lemke. Thomas C. O'Brien -- 1940. Republican. Wendell Willkie. Charles L. McNary --^
• 1944. Republican. Thomas E. Dewey. John W. Bricker -- 1948. Republican. Thomas E. Dewey. Earl Warren. States' Rights. Strom Thurmond. Fielding Wright. Progressive. Henry A. Wallace. Glen H. Taylor. (Special mention). Harold E. Stassen -- 1952. Democratic. Adlai Stevenson. John J. Sparkman -- 1956. Democratic. Adlai Stevenson. Estes Kefauver -- 1960. Republican. Richard M. Nixon. Henry Cabot Lodge -- 1964. Republican. Barry Goldwater. William E. Miller -- 1968. Democratic. Hubert H. Humphrey. Edmund Muskie. American Independent. George Wallace. Marvin Griffin. Curtis LeMay -- 1972. Democratic. George McGovern. Thomas Eagleton. Sargent Shriver -- 1976. Republican. Gerald Ford. Robert J. Dole -- 1980. Democratic. Jimmy Carter. Walter Mondale. National Unity. John B. Anderson. Patrick Lucey -- 1984. Democratic. Walter Mondale. Geraldine Ferraro -- 1988. Democratic. Michael Dukakis. Lloyd Bentsen -- 1992. Republican. George Bush. Dan Quayle. United We Stand. Ross Perot. James Stockdale --^
• 1996. Republican. Robert J. Dole. Jack Kemp. Reform. Ross Perot. Pat Choate -- Prospects for Success as President -- The Also-Rans -- Prospects for Success as President -- The Running Mates -- The Presidents Ranked. (Schlesinger Poll 1948). (Schlesinger Poll 1962). (Chicago Tribune Poll 1982). (Murray Poll 1983). (Siena Institute Poll 1995). (McDougall Ranking 1997).

ISBN

0786403101 (hardcover/casebound)

LCCN

^^^97034099^

OCLC

• 37379896
• SCSB-10334205

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library