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Presidents by number of States won |
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| NS : W | Date | Candidate |
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| 50: 49 | 1972 | Richard M Nixon |
| 50: 49 | 1984 | Ronald Reagan |
| 48: 46 | 1936 | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| 50: 45 | 1964 | Lyndon B Johnson |
| 50: 44 | 1980 | Ronald Reagan |
| 48: 42 | 1932 | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| 48: 41 | 1956 | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| 48: 40 | 1912 | Woodrow Wilson |
| 48: 40 | 1928 | Herbert Hoover |
| 50: 40 | 1988 | George H.W. Bush |
| 48: 39 | 1952 | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| 48: 38 | 1940 | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| 48: 37 | 1920 | Warren Harding |
| 48: 36 | 1944 | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| 48: 35 | 1924 | Calvin Coolidge |
| 50: 33 | 1992 | Bill Clinton |
| 45: 32 | 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 50: 32 | 1968 | Richard M Nixon |
| 50: 32 | 1996 | Bill Clinton |
| 37: 31 | 1872 | Ulysses S Grant |
| 48: 30 | 1916 | Woodrow Wilson |
| 46: 29 | 1908 | William H Taft |
| 45: 28 | 1900 | William McKinley |
| 48: 28 | 1948 | Harry S Truman |
| 50: 27 | 1976 | Gerald R Ford * |
| 31: 26 | 1852 | Franklin Pierce |
| 37: 26 | 1868 | Ulysses S Grant |
| 50: 26 | 1960 | Richard Nixon * |
| 23: 23 | 1820 | James Monroe (1) |
| 50: 24 | 1976 | Jimmy Carter |
| 44: 23 | 1892 | Grover Cleveland |
| 45: 23 | 1896 | William McKinley |
| 50: 23 | 1960 | John F Kennedy (5) |
| 25: 22 | 1864 | Abraham Lincoln |
| 37: 21 | 1876 | Rutherford B Hayes |
| 38: 20 | 1884 | Grover Cleveland |
| 38: 20 | 1888 | Benjamin Harrison |
| 26: 19 | 1840 | William H Harrison |
| 31: 19 | 1856 | James Buchanan |
| 38: 19 | 1880 | James Garfield |
| 33: 18 | 1860 | Abraham Lincoln |
| 38: 18 | 1888 | Grover Cleveland * |
| 50: 18 | 1992 | George H.W. Bush * |
| 24: 17 | 1832 | Andrew Jackson |
| 18: 16 | 1816 | James Monroe |
| 44: 16 | 1892 | Benjamin Harrison * |
| 15: 15 | 1792 | George Washington (1) |
| 17: 15 | 1804 | Thomas Jefferson |
| 24: 15 | 1828 | Andrew Jackson |
| 24: 15 | 1836 | Martin Van Buren |
| 26: 15 | 1844 | James K Polk |
| 29: 15 | 1848 | Zachary Taylor |
| 17: 12 | 1808 | James Madison |
| 17: 11 | 1812 | James Madison |
| 24: 11 | 1824 | Andrew Jackson * |
| 10: 10 | 1789 | George Washington (2) |
| 15: 9 | 1796 | John Adams |
| 24: 9 | 1828 | John Quincy Adams * |
| 16: 8 | 1801 | Thomas Jefferson (3) |
| 15: 7 | 1796 | Thomas Jefferson * |
| 16: 7 | 1801 | John Adams * |
| 24: 7 | 1824 | John Quincy Adams (3) |
| 24: 7 | 1836 | William H Harrison * |
| 26: 7 | 1840 | Martin Van Buren * |
| 50: 7 | 1980 | Jimmy Carter * |
| 48: 6 | 1912 | Theodore Roosevelt *(4) |
| 48: 6 | 1932 | Herbert Hoover * |
| 48: 2 | 1912 | William H Taft |
| 31: 1 | 1856 | Millard Fillmore * |
| 29: 0 | 1848 | Martin Van Buren * |
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(1) George Washington in 1792 and James Monroe in 1820 won every State.
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(2) New York did not vote, and North Carolina and Rhode Island
had not yet ratified the Constitution.
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(3) Elected by the House:
1801: Jefferson won votes of 10 States.
1825: Adams won votes of 13 States and Jackson 7 States.
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(4) Theodore Roosevelt was not in office in 1912. He was running as a third party candidate.
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(5) The Democrats won Alabama but 6 of its 11 electoral
college representatives and all 8 from Mississippi
voted for Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) who was not a candidate.
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Presidents by share of popular vote |
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| % | Date * |
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| 61.4 | 1964 D | Lyndon B Johnson |
| 60.7 | 1972 R | Richard Nixon |
| 60.5 | 1920 R | Warren G Harding |
| 60.2 | 1936 D | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| 58.8 | 1984 R | Ronald Reagan |
| 58.0 | 1928 R | Herbert Hoover |
| 57.4 | 1956 R | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| 57.3 | 1932 D | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| 56.0 | 1828 D | Andrew Jackson |
| 55.6 | 1872 R | Ulysses S Grant |
| 55.1 | 1952 R | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| 55.0 | 1864 R | Abraham Lincoln |
| 54.7 | 1940 D | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| 54.2 | 1924 R | Calvin Coolidge |
| 54.2 | 1832 D | Andrew Jackson |
| 53.4 | 1988 R | George H.W. Bush |
| 53.3 | 1944 D | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| 52.9 | 1840 W | William H Harrison |
| 52.7 | 1868 R | Ulysses S Grant |
| 51.6 | 1908 R | William H Taft |
| 51.0 | 1896 R | William McKinley |
| 50.8 | 1976 D | Jimmy Carter |
| 50.8 | 1852 D | Franklin Pierce |
| 50.8 | 1980 R | Ronald Reagan |
| 50.8 | 1836 D | Martin Van Buren |
| 49.7 | 1960 D | John F Kennedy |
| 49.5 | 1844 D | James K Polk |
| 49.4 | 1948 D | Harry S Truman |
| 49.3 | 1996 D | Bill Clinton |
| 49.2 | 1916 D | Woodrow Wilson |
| 48.5 | 1884 D | Grover Cleveland |
| 48.4 | 1880 R | James Garfield |
| 48.0 | 1876 R | Rutherford B Hayes (1) |
| 47.8 | 1888 R | Benjamin Harrison (2) |
| 47.3 | 1848 W | Zachary Taylor |
| 46.1 | 1892 D | Grover Cleveland |
| 46.1 | 1904 R | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 45.3 | 1856 D | James Buchanan |
| 43.4 | 1900 R | William McKinley |
| 43.4 | 1968 R | Richard Nixon |
| 43.2 | 1992 D | Bill Clinton |
| 41.8 | 1912 D | Woodrow Wilson |
| 39.8 | 1860 R | Abraham Lincoln (3) |
| 30.9 | 1824 # | John Quincy Adams (4) |
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* D=Democrat R=Republican W=Whig
#=Democratic Republican
Presidents not listed served before beginning of recorded popular vote. For their party affiliation see "Presidents By Party."
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(1) The Democratic candidate, Samuel Tilden, won more votes than Hayes but was one electoral vote -- 185 to 184 -- short of a majority in the electoral college. There were twenty disputed electoral votes from four states. An Electoral Commission was appointed by Congress to consider the disputed votes and by a majority vote of 8 to 7 the Commission gave all of them to Hayes. |
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(2) Grover Cleveland obtained 48.6%, but fewer electoral college votes
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(3) The Democrats' 47.6% share was split between two candidates
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(4) Adams received fewer popular votes than Andrew Jackson (41.3%) but was elected by the House; no candidate having had a majority of the elctoral college vote.
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Year ending in zero. |
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| 1800 | None (1) |
| 1820 | James Monroe |
| 1840 | William H Harrison (2) |
| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln * |
| 1880 | James Garfield * |
| 1900 | William McKinley * |
| 1920 | Warren Harding (2) |
| 1940 | Franklin D Roosevelt (2) |
| 1960 | John F Kennedy * |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan (3) |
| 2000 | George W. Bush |
(1) Jefferson elected on Feb. 17, 1801
(2) Died in office, natural causes.
(3) Wounded by assassin. | * Assassinated. |
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Presidents elected by the House of Represetatives |
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Thomas Jefferson | February 17, 1801 (1) |
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John Quincy Adams | February 9, 1825 (2) |
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(1) In the 1800 election [not decided until February 17, 1801] the Electoral College was required to vote for two people. The candidate receivng the most votes became President and the candidate with the next highest vote count would be Vice President. Jefferson and Aaron Burr both received 73 votes. There being a tie, the election went to the House where Jefferson won on the 36th ballot, and Burr became VP. |
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(2) In the election of 1824 [following the first recorded popular vote] no candidate had a majority in the electoral college. The House elected Adams over Andrew Jackson. |
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Presidents defeated seeking re-election |
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| 1801 John Adams |
| 1828 John Quincy Adams |
| 1840 Martin Van Buren |
| 1888 Grover Cleveland |
| 1892 Benjamin Harrison |
| 1912 William H Taft |
| 1932 Herbert Hoover |
| 1976 Gerald Ford |
| 1980 Jimmy Carter |
| 1992 George H.W. Bush |
Presidents who were defeated before
becoming President |
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| 1796 Thomas Jefferson |
| 1824 Andrew Jackson |
| 1836 William H Harrison |
| 1960 Richard M Nixon |
Franklin D Roosevelt was an unsuccessful
Vice Presidential candidate in 1920. |
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Presidents who became President by succession |
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| 1841 John Tyler | death of William Harrison. |
| 1850 Millard Fillmore | death of Zachary Taylor. |
| 1865 Andrew Johnson | assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
| 1881 Chester A Arthur | assassination of James Garfield. |
| 1901 Theodore Roosevelt | assassination of William McKinley. |
| 1923 Calvin Coolidge | death of Warren Harding. |
| 1945 Harry S Truman | death of Franklin Roosevelt. |
| 1963 Lyndon B Johnson | assassinatin of John Kennedy. |
| 1974 Gerald R Ford | resignation of Richard Nixon. |
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Presidents who had no Vice President. |
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| Chester A Arthur |
| Millard Fillmore |
| Andrew Johnson |
| John Tyler |
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Under the 25th Amendment (1967) Presidents are required to fill vacancies by nominating a Vice President for Congressional approval. Gerald Ford was nominated Vice President by Richard Nixon in 1973, following the scandal and resignation of Spiro Agnew. The next year, 1974, Nixon resigned and Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller. |
Presidents before the first recorded
popular vote in 1824 |
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| 1789 George Washington (2 terms) |
| 1797 John Adams |
| 1801 Thomas Jefferson (2 trms) |
| 1809 James Madison (2 terms) |
| 1817 James Monroe (2 terms) |
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Presidents who were impeached. |
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| -- Andrew Johnson |
| -- Bill Clinton |
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Eleven articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson were adopted by the House March 2 and 3, 1868, and the trial began in the Senate March 5, 1868. The impeachment fell short of the required two-thirds majority by one vote on three of the articles of impeachment May 26, 1868, and no further action was ever taken on the remaining eight. |
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The House voted December 19, 1998, to impeach William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President, on two of four Articles of Impeachment. The Senate voted February 12, 1999, to acquit on both articles. The vote was 45 for guilty and 55 for not guilty on the first Article (Perjury), and 50 votes for guilty and 50 votes for not guilty on the second article (Obstruction of Justice). |
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Andrew Jackson was censured by the [Whig] Senate March 28, 1834. President Jackson sent the Senate a message denying its power to pass a resolution of censure. The Senate refused to receive his message. The censure was later expunged by the [Democratic] Senate on January 16, 1837. |
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The first attempt to impeach a President was in 1842 against John Tyler. When Tyler vetoed a tariff bill, the first impeachment resolution against a President was introduced in the House of Representatives. A committee headed by Representative John Quincy Adams (the former President) reported that the President had misused the veto power, but the resolution failed. |
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Articles of Impeachment against Richard Nixon were adopted by the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 but he resigned before they were considered by the full House.
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Since 1789, more than fifty Impeachment proceedings have been initiated in the House of Representatives. |
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In addition to the two presidents, between 1797 (a senator) and 1993 (a federal judge) the House has impeached 16 federal officers: 13 federal judges (7 Convicted, 3 resigned before trial, and 3 acquitted), one Supreme Court Justice (1804: acquitted), one Secretary of War (1876: acquitted, but he had resigned before the House impeached him), and one U.S. Senator (1797: dismissed because senators cannot be impeached; he had already been expelled). |
Presidents who were never
elected President |
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| 1841 John Tyler |
| 1850 Millard Fillmore |
| 1865 Andrew Johnson |
| 1881 Chester A Arthur |
| 1974 Gerald R Ford |
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Presidents only by succession |
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| 1841 John Tyler |
| 1850 Millard Fillmore |
| 1865 Andrew Johnson |
| 1881 Chester Arthur |
| 1974 Gerald Ford |
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Presidents whose cabinets included future Presidents. |
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| President | Cabinet Officer |
Position |
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| George Washington | Thomas Jefferson |
Secretary of State |
| Thomas Jefferson | James Madison | Secretary of State |
| James Madison | James Monroe |
Secretary of State, Secretary of War |
| James Monroe | John Quincy Adams | Secretary of State |
| Andrew Jackson | Martin Van Buren | Secretary of State |
| James Polk | James Buchanan | Secretary of State |
| Andrew Johnson | Ulysses S Grant |
Secretary of War * |
| Theodore Roosevelt | William H. Taft |
Secretary of War |
| Warren Harding | Herbert C. Hoover |
Secretary of Commerce |
| Calvin Coolidge | Herbert C. Hoover |
Secretary of Commerce |
| * ad interim, following the suspension of Edwin M. Stanton who was re-instated. |
Presidents who sought a
non-consecutive term |
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| 1892 Grover Cleveland (Elected) |
| 1848 Martin Van Buren (Defeated) |
| 1856 Millard Fillmore (Defeated) |
| 1912 Theodore Roosevelt (Defeated) |
Presidents who were Vice President
when elected |
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| 1796 John Adams |
| 1801 Thomas Jefferson |
| 1836 Martin Van Buren |
| 1988 George Bush |
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