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President Country Lost election Winning successor Notes 1797–1801: John Adams United States: 1800 United States presidential election: Thomas Jefferson: Adams placed third behind Jefferson and his running mate Aaron Burr. Jefferson narrowly won a contingent election in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1825–1829: John Quincy Adams United ...
Only former president to ever run for an office outside the United States. Andrew Johnson: 1865–1869: Denied nomination by his party: 1872: U.S. House of Representatives: Lost: Ran as an Independent and finished 3rd in the general election. [13] 1874: U.S. Senate: Won: Only former president to serve in the Senate, served until his 1875 death ...
Of the five winners who lost the popular vote, three (Adams, Harrison, and Trump) ran for reelection four years later and lost the popular vote, one (Bush) ran and won the election as well as the popular vote, and one (Hayes) did not run for re-election. Trump ran for reelection eight years later, winning the election and the popular vote.
President Joe Biden is the second incumbent president in history to not be his party's nominee after running for reelection—the first was the 14th U.S. president, Franklin Pierce.
The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2] Under the U.S. Constitution, the officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. [3] The ...
Former President Jimmy Carter earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 which, at the time, seemed to cap his decades of dedication to international humanitarian work after leaving the White House.
Additionally, Cleveland was the third of only five presidents to win re-election with a smaller percentage of the popular vote than in prior elections. The other four are Andrew Jackson in 1832 , James Madison in 1812 , Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944, and Barack Obama in 2012.
Vice President of the United States (1977–1981) ... This was the third and most recent presidential election in which the incumbent Democrat lost reelection, after ...