"If elected--" unsuccessful candidates for the presidency, 1796-1968 the staff of the Historian's Office, National Portrait Gallery, Lillian B. Miller [and others]
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Physical description:
512 pages illustrations 27 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
collective biographies
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Date:
1972
Contents:
From the Constitution to the emergence of parties, 1787-1796: Thomas Jefferson (1796) -- Thomas Pinckney (1796) -- 1800: "Revolution in principles": John Adams (1800) -- Aaron Burr (1800) -- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1804) -- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1808) -- George Clinton (1808) -- DeWitt Clinton (1812) -- Rufus King (1816) -- 1820: Era of good feelings and the end of an age -- 1824: "Corrupt bargain": William Harris Crawford (1824) -- Henry Clay (1824) -- Andrew Jackson (1824) -- John Quincy Adams (1828) -- Henry Clay (1832) -- William Wirt (1832) -- Daniel Webster (1836) -- William Henry Harrison (1836) -- Hugh Lawson White (1836) -- 1840: Log cabin and hard cider democracy: Martin Van Buren (1840) -- Henry Clay (1844) -- James Gillespie Birney (1844) -- Lewis Cass (1848) -- Martin Van Buren (1848) -- Gerrit Smith (1848) -- Winfield Scott (1852) -- John Parker Hale (1852) -- John C. Frémont (1856) -- Millard Fillmore (1856) -- 1860: "House Divided": Stephen A. Douglas (1860) -- John Cabell Breckinridge (1860) -- John Bell (1860) -- George B. McClellan (1864) -- Horatio Seymour (1868) -- Horace Greeley (1872) -- Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872) -- Charles O'Conor (1872) -- James Black (1872) -- 1876: Bargains and compromise: Samuel J. Tilden (1876) -- Peter Cooper (1876) -- Winfield Scott Hancock (1880) -- James B. Weaver (1880) -- Neal Dow (1880) -- James G. Blaine (1884) -- Benjamin F. Butler (1884) -- John P. St. John (1884) -- Belva Ann Lockwood (1884) -- Grover Cleveland (1888) -- Benjamin Harrison (1892) -- James B. Weaver (1892) -- 1896: Silver and a full dinner pail: William Jennings Bryan (1896) -- John McAuley Palmer (1896) -- William Jennings Bryan (1900) -- Alton B. Parker (1904) -- Thomas E. Watson (1904) -- William Jennings Bryan (1908) -- 1912: Progressives all: William Howard Taft (1912) -- Theodore Roosevelt (1912) -- Eugene v. Debs (1912) -- Charles Evans Hughes (1916) -- James Middleton Cox (1920) -- Eugene v. Debs (1920) -- John W. Davis (1924) -- Robert M. LaFollette (1924) -- Alfred E. Smith (1928) -- Norman Thomas (1928) -- 1932: Democracy confronts depression -- Herbert Hoover (1932) -- James R. Cox (1932) -- Jacob S. Coxey (1932) -- Alfred M. Landon (1936) -- Earl Browder (1936) -- William Lemke (1936) -- Wendell Wilkie (1940) -- Thomas E. Dewey (1944) -- Gerald L.K. Smith (1944) -- 1948: Pollsters confounded: Thomas E. Dewey (1948) -- Henry A. Wallace (1948) -- Strom Thurmond (1948) -- 1952: Time for a change: Adlai Stevenson (1952) -- Eric Hass (1952) -- Adlai Stevenson (1956) -- Richard M. Nixon (1960) -- Barry M. Goldwater (1964) -- Hubert H. Humphrey (1968) -- George Wallace (1968) -- Eldridge Cleaver (1968)