Bush in Grover Cleveland lost his reelection campaign in but won back the White House four years later by defeating sitting President Benjamin Harrison. He is the only president to have served two nonconsecutive terms. This list does not include sitting presidents who did not receive their party's nomination for the next general election. She will be the first woman to hold the office. Harris, who has represented California in the Senate since , is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, and she grew up attending a Black Baptist church and a Hindu temple.
She was the first Indian-American and second Black woman to serve as a senator. Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States, CNN projects, after a victory in the state where he was born put him over the electoral votes needed to win. With Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes, Biden now has a total of electoral votes. Before becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Biden served as vice president under former President Barack Obama.
He is also Delaware's longest-serving senator. Throughout his campaign, Biden has argued that the "soul of the nation" is at stake, and has promised that he would seek to heal a country fractured by Trump's presidency. But it's not just there. According to election data from the website toWin, Jimmy Carter lost his reelection bid by the widest margin in history. Carter won just six states and the District of Columbia, giving him 49 electoral votes. Republican Ronald Reagan cruised to victory with a staggering electoral votes.
The 41st president may have experienced the steepest downward slide of any commander-in-chief. On the heels of victory in the first Gulf War, George H. He lost his reelection effort to Bill Clinton in Several presidents never sought reelection. Hayes all made assurances that they would only serve for one term—a promise that they kept. That may have worked out for the best in the case of Polk, who left office exhausted and died three months after the end of his term. Lyndon Johnson, who took over after John F.
Calvin Coolidge and Harry Truman, who similarly stepped into the Oval Office after a president died, also decided to serve only one term. In the 19th Century, there were multiple cases of men who stepped into the presidency after a death, but never ran at the top of a ticket. Millard Fillmore, who become chief executive when Zachary Taylor died in office, was one such example.
Arthur, who became commander-in-chief after James A. Office of the Historian. University of Virginia. Fiscal Policy. Your Privacy Rights. To change or withdraw your consent choices for Investopedia. At any time, you can update your settings through the "EU Privacy" link at the bottom of any page. These choices will be signaled globally to our partners and will not affect browsing data.
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William Howard Taft was defeated by Woodrow Wilson in the election, joining the ranks of incumbent presidents who did not win reelection. Though he'd been close with his predecessor, President Teddy Roosevelt, Taft's approach to policy drove them apart. Roosevelt challenged Taft for the Republican party presidential nomination in , but the former president ultimately lost to his successor and ran as a third-party candidate. Taft suffered a humiliating defeat, earning less of the popular and electoral vote than both Wilson and Roosevelt.
But his career in public service was not totally over, and Taft later went on to become Chief Justice of the US. Hoover was president at the onset of the Great Depression , and failed to rise to the task of addressing the economic calamity. Roosevelt crushed Hoover in the election, winning the popular vote by more than seven million votes. Hoover earned just 59 electoral votes to Roosevelt's Gerald Ford lost the election to Jimmy Carter after coming to power during one of the most tumultuous decades of the 20th century for the US.
He became commander-in-chief after President Richard Nixon resigned while facing impeachment over the Watergate scandal. Ford was the first unelected president in US history. Ford contended with an energy crisis and major economic woes during his short presidency.
Carter defeated Ford by a little over 1. Carter, who'd come to Washington as an outsider after previously serving as governor of Georgia, struggled to get things done and his management of the economy made him deeply unpopular.
He also faced one of the biggest international crises for the US in the modern era: the Iranian hostage crisis. Dozens of hostages were taken by Iranian students at the US embassy in Tehran. The US launched a disastrous military operation meant to rescue the hostages in April that resulted in a helicopter crash and the deaths of eight service members. The hostages were eventually released. Young Arkansas Gov. Learn something new from history: Subscribe to our newsletter , and follow us on Twitter RetroReport.
Benjamin Harrison Harrison was the last president to lose the popular vote but win the Electoral College until George W. William Howard Taft There was no rule stopping Theodore Roosevelt from a third presidential term in , but he decided on Taft as his successor.
Herbert Hoover The stock market went kaput in his first year, and the Great Depression defined his time in office.
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