Know Nothing - Presidential Candidates

Presidential Candidates

Election year Result Nominees
President Vice President
1852 lost Daniel Webster,
then, on Webster's death,
Jacob Broom		 George C. Washington
then Reynell Coates
1856 lost Millard Fillmore Andrew Jackson Donelson

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