List of Presidents of The United States By Previous Executive Experience - Lost Races

Lost Races

Other than immediate re-election to the Presidency

President Office and jurisdiction Year Notes
Thomas Jefferson President of the United States 1796 Won in 1800, 1804
Andrew Jackson President of the United States 1824 Won in 1828, 1832
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
Abraham Lincoln United States Senator from Illinois 1858 Lost to Stephen Douglas
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.
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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