Lost Races
Other than immediate re-election to the Presidency
President | Office and jurisdiction | Year | Notes |
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Thomas Jefferson | President of the United States | 1796 | Won in 1800, 1804 |
Andrew Jackson | President of the United States | 1824 | Won in 1828, 1832 |
Martin Van Buren | Democratic nomination for President of the United States |
1844 | Placed in distant third to James K. Polk |
President of the United States | 1848 | Lost to Zachary Taylor. Candidate of the Free Soil Party. | |
William Henry Harrison | Governor of Ohio | 1820 | Lost to Ethan Allen Brown |
United States Representative | 1822 | Lost to James W. Gazlay | |
President of the United States | 1836 | Won in 1840 | |
Millard Fillmore | President of the United States | 1856 | Placed in distant third to James Buchanan. Candidate of the Know-Nothing Party. |
Abraham Lincoln | United States Senator from Illinois | 1858 | Lost to Stephen Douglas |
Ulysses S. Grant | Republican nomination for President of the United States |
1880 | Lost to James Garfield |
Grover Cleveland | District Attorney for Erie County, New York | 1865 | Lost to Lyman K. Bass |
Theodore Roosevelt | Mayor of New York City | 1886 | Placed in distant third behind Abram S. Hewitt. |
Republican nomination for President of the United States |
1912 | Lost to William Howard Taft | |
President of the United States | 1912 | Placed distant second to Woodrow Wilson. Candidate of the Progressive Party. Only third-party candidate to place second in an election. | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Vice President of the United States | 1920 | Later became Governor of New York (1929–1933) |
John F. Kennedy | Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States |
1956 | Won presidency in 1960 |
Lyndon B. Johnson | United States Senator from Texas | 1941 | Later elected Senator in 1948 |
Richard Nixon | President of the United States | 1960 | Won in 1968, 1972 |
Governor of California | 1962 | Lost to Pat Brown by nearly 300,000 votes; in his concession speech, he lashed out at the media, saying "...you don't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." | |
Jimmy Carter | Governor of Georgia | 1966 | Later won the office in 1970 |
Ronald Reagan | Republican nomination for President of the United States |
1968, 1976 | Later won in 1980, 1984 |
George H.W. Bush | United States Senator from Texas | 1964, 1970 | Lost to Ralph Yarborough in 1964 and Lloyd Bentsen in 1970 |
Republican nomination for President of the United States |
1980 | Won presidency in 1988 but lost re-election in 1992 | |
Bill Clinton | United States Representative | 1974 | Lost to John Paul Hammerschmidt in 1974 |
Governor of Arkansas (re-election) | 1980 | Lost to Frank White in 1980; won in 1978, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1990 | |
George W. Bush | United States Representative | 1978 | Lost to Kent Hance in 1978 |
Barack Obama | United States Representative | 2000 | Lost Democratic nomination to Bobby Rush in 2000 |
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