Candidates: Republican Party: Benjamin Harrison (Indiana) and Levi Morton (New York) Democratic Party: Grover Cleveland (New York) and Allen Thurman (Ohio) Prohibition Party: Clinton Fisk (New Jersey) and John Brooks (Missouri) Election Results: Harrison/Morton: 233 electoral votes, 5.44 million popular votes Cleveland/Thurman: 168 electoral votes, 5.53 million popular votes Fisk/Brooks: 0 electoral votes, 249,000 popular ...
From the 1840 death of President William Henry Harrison to the 1960 assassination of President John Kennedy, every American President who was elected in a year that ended in zero died in office. Is this, as some claim, the work of a curse placed upon the “Great White Father” by the Native American leader Tecumseh? ...
If you haven’t heard of William Henry Harrison don’t worry, his only achievement as president of the United States, stunning as it was, involved dying of pneumonia only one month into his term. Not only was Harrison the first president ever to die in office (FDR thanks him for starting that trend) but he also ...
Candidates: Democratic Party: Martin Van Buren (New York) and Richard Johnson (Kentucky) Whig Party: (regional Whig candidates only) William Henry Harrison (Ohio) and Frances Granger (New York) (Western region) Hugh White (Tennessee) and John Tyler (Virginia) (Southern region) Daniel Webster (Massachusetts) and Frances Granger (New York) (Northern region) Election Results: Van Buren/Johnson: 170 electoral votes, ...
Celebrating Presidents Day in Virginia should seem like the most natural thing in the world to do. After all the first President of the United States George Washington was born here, as were several other chief executives who followed him. With all the local celebrations, residents of Virginia as well as tourists should find presidents ...
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