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Lucy

2006-02-02 5:04 PM

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Subject: Presidential Trivia

okay, searched but could not find. Me and hubby are having a disagreement....

Has a sitting vice president ever NOT won the nomination for president? And who is it? He thinks Cheney isn't gonna get nominated this year.

I found eight instances of when the sitting VP ran for prez and lost. Al Gore, for example.

Now, ya'll, play nice and don't ~~bicker~~ debate on my thread, just answer my question! Thank you!

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Brett

2006-02-02 6:57 PM

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Subject: RE: Presidential Trivia

Oh, that's tough... especially since back before the 20th Century you had so many smaller parties roaming around that if you really wanted a nomination you could get one.

Charles Fairbanks was interested and Teddy R. refused to support him, so that (in a round-about way) is failing to win the nomination.

Other than that I think most of them fall into your "VP running and losing" category (don't forget to count Nixon in that one).

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Brock Samson

2006-02-02 7:24 PM

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Subject: RE: Presidential Trivia

Interesting question: My understanding is that it wasn't until the election of 1804 that you actually saw party caucus' to nominate a parties candidate. In 1808 Jefferson declined to run again and picked James Madison as his parties successor, Madison was Secretary of State under Jefferson and not Vice president, so maybe that counts. The election of 1816 saw James Monroe run against Secretary of War Crawford. Monroe was the favored candidate of both Jefferson and Madison. Monroe was not vice president under either. VP under Madsion was Clinton and Gerry. Does that count? Monroes VP was Tompkins and in the 1824 election the candidates were William Crawford, John Q. Adams, Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson. Does this count?
It doesn't look like until the election of 1836 that you see a trend toward the VP getting the "nomination" or running succesfully. Prior to that it looks like the VP was for the most part a dead end job. Jefferson being the exception.

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nbo10

2006-02-02 7:52 PM

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