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Gregory ran for president in the 1968 United States presidential election as a write-in candidate of the Freedom and Peace Party, which had broken off from the Peace and Freedom Party. He garnered 47,097 votes, including one from Hunter S. Thompson , [ 21 ] with fellow activist Mark Lane as his running mate in some states.
Harry Truman was among the poorest U.S. presidents, with a net worth considerably less than $1 million. His financial situation contributed to the doubling of the presidential salary to $100,000 in 1949. [5] In addition, the presidential pension was created in 1958 when Truman was again experiencing financial difficulties. [6]
Nixon, who died in 1994, had a net worth of $988,522 in 1973, according to a Dec. 9 issue from that year by The San Francisco Examiner. That amounts to about $6.03 million in today’s dollars .
This election was the first presidential election after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which began restoring voting rights to Black Americans in the South, where most had been disenfranchised since the early 20th century. [4] This was the last presidential election until 1988 in which the incumbent president was not on the ballot ...
George H.W. Bush. Before: $4 million After: $23 million The elder Bush had grown his net worth by 475% between the time he took office in 1989 and 2017, when The American University study was ...
1968 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania [1] Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Democratic: Hubert Humphrey: 2,259,405: 47.59%: 29: Republican: Richard Nixon: 2,090,017 44.02% 0 American Independent: George Wallace: 378,582 7.97% 0 Peace and Freedom: Dick Gregory: 7,821 0.16% 0 Socialist Labor: Henning A. Blomen ...
The 1968 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 5, 1968. All 50 states and the District of Columbia , were part of the 1968 United States presidential election . Voters chose 43 electors to the Electoral College , which selected the president and vice president .
The 1968 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon, the 36th vice president of the United States, began when Nixon, the Republican nominee of 1960, formally announced his candidacy, following a year's preparation and five years' political reorganization after defeats in the 1960 presidential election and the 1962 California gubernatorial election.