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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1976. The Democratic ticket of former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter and Minnesota senator Walter Mondale narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent president Gerald Ford and Kansas senator Bob Dole.
Carter won the election with 50.1% of the popular vote and 297 electoral votes, while Ford won 48% of the popular vote and 240 electoral votes. The 1976 presidential election represents the lone Democratic presidential election victory between the elections of 1964 and 1992. Carter fared particularly well in the Northeast and the South, while ...
President-elect Carter and Rosalynn Carter meets with outgoing President Gerald Ford and First lady Betty Ford. The presidential transition of Jimmy Carter was the first systematic exercise in transition planning. He started his effort in the spring of 1976 when he became the presumptive Democratic nominee. [86]
The career of Jimmy Carter, the U.S. President who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, will be remembered for many things: his peanut-farming background, his speedy rise to political fame and fall after ...
Carter won the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination as a dark horse candidate before defeating incumbent president Gerald Ford of the Republican Party in the 1976 election. Carter pardoned Vietnam War draft evaders on his second day in office and successfully pursued the Camp David Accords , the Panama Canal Treaties , and the second round ...
1980 presidential election: Reagan won the presidency with 489 electoral votes to Carter's 49. Carter's only term as president ended on Jan. 20, 1981. ... Former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th ...
The 1976 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on November 2, 1976. The Democratic candidate, former Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter, overwhelmingly won his home state with 66.74% of the vote ahead of the Republican Party candidate, incumbent President Gerald Ford, giving him the state's 12 electoral votes.
Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter embraces his wife, Rosalynn Carter, after receiving final news of his victory in the national general election in 1976. First Deacon, and then Dancer