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Dukakis made history as the first Greek-American and Aromanian presidential candidate, first Greek Orthodox major-party nominee, and the first major-party nominee with ancestry outside Europe. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ a ] Although he lost the election, carrying only ten states and Washington, D.C. , he improved on the Democratic performances in the ...
Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote. If no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote, the winner is determined through a contingent election held in the United States House of Representatives; this situation has occurred ...
1984 U.S. presidential election: Candidate: Ronald Reagan 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) George H. W. Bush 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–1989) Affiliation: Republican Party: Status: Announced: October 17, 1983 Official nominee: August 23, 1984 Won election: November 6, 1984 Inaugurated: January 20, 1985 ...
In May 1983, Jackson became the first African-American man since Reconstruction to address a joint session of the Alabama Legislature, where he said it was "about time we forgot about black and white and started talking about employed and unemployed." Art Harris saw Jackson as "testing the waters for a black presidential candidacy down South". [4]
1984 U.S. presidential election: Candidate: Walter Mondale 42nd Vice President of the United States (1977–1981) Geraldine Ferraro U.S. Representative for New York's 9th district (1979–1985) Affiliation: Democratic Party: Status: Announced: February 21, 1983 Presumptive nominee: June 6, 1984 Official nominee: July 19, 1984 Lost election ...
It's never happened in a country with a long transition between Election Day at the start of November and the start of a president's new term on Jan. 20.
Sonia Johnson ran in the 1984 presidential election, as the presidential candidate of the Citizens Party, Pennsylvania's Consumer Party and California's Peace and Freedom Party. Johnson received 72,161 votes (0.1%) finishing fifth. Her running mate for the Citizens Party was Richard Walton and for the Peace and Freedom Party Emma Wong Mar.
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