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Extra Trivia!

There has been 60 United States Presidential elections. Here is a fun fact about some of them!

• The 1820 election was uncontested by the Federalist Party, resulting in President James Monroe and Vice President Daniel D. Tompkins being re-elected. An incumbent ticket would not be re-elected for another 96 years, until Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Marshall achieved this feat in 1916.
• Did you know? Before 1831's National Republican Convention nominated Henry Clay ahead of the 1832 election, presidential candidates were chosen by each party's members of Congress in a process known as the Congressional Nominating Caucus
• Did you know? The turnout for the 1940 election (62.5%) was the highest in three decades. More than elections held on the eve of World War I, during the Roaring Twenties, and in the throes of the Great Depression!
• Fun fact! The 1944 election was the last time an incumbent Vice President was denied renomination by either party.
• Harry S. Truman's election in 1948 marked the longest consecutive winning streak by the Democratic Party in history, at five elections in a row.
• The last time a major party convention lasted more than one ballot was in 1952, when Adlai Stevenson won the Democratic nomination after three.
• Did you know? The only time since 1876 in which the majority-Black Macon County, Alabama voted for a Republican was for Dwight Eisenhower in the 1956 election.
• In 1960, four future Presidents were in the running to be on both parties' tickets. Richard Nixon was the Republican, John F. Kennedy the Democrat, Lyndon Johnson his running mate, and Gerald Ford was considered as Nixon's running mate.
• Lyndon Johnson in 1964 was the third winning President to not appear on the ballot in Alabama. The others were Abe Lincoln in 1860 and Harry Truman in 1948.
• Future President Ronald Reagan ran his first presidential campaign in the 1968 election. He would lose to Richard Nixon.
• In the 1972 election, George McGovern strongly considered CBS broadcaster Walter Cronkite as a running mate.
• Did you know? Jimmy Carter's victory in the 1976 election made him the last Democrat to be elected President while winning Texas.
• Ted Kennedy's campaign in the 1980 election was the last time a Democrat made a serious effort to challenge their party's incumbent President in the primaries.
• In 1984, polls showed Walter Mondale's campaign running dead even with Ronald Reagan after he chose Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate.
• President George H.W. Bush's victory over Michael Dukakis in the 1988 election marked the first time since 1836 that a sitting Vice President was elected President.
• Fun fact! President Bush's 37.4% share of the popular vote in the 1992 election was the lowest for a major party candidate since Alf Landon in 1936, and the lowest for an incumbent President since Taft in 1912.
• Bob Dole's nomination in 1996 made him the oldest first-time presidential candidate ever.
• The closest presidential election this century was in 2000, when the Supreme Court ultimately intervened and George W. Bush was Inaugurated on January 20, 2001.
• Three years before the 2004 election, President George W. Bush had a 90% approval rating, the highest in history!
• The 2008 election featured two historic campaigns. Barack Obama became the first Black President, and Sarah Palin nearly became the first woman Vice President.
• In the 2012 election, Barack Obama won 77% of all counties with a Whole Foods Market, but only 29% of all counties with a Cracker Barrel.
• The first woman to be nominated by a major party as its presidential nominee was Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
• In the 2020 election, Democrat Joe Biden won the most amount of votes of any candidate, with 81,283,501 votes.
• By winning the 2024 election, Republican Donald Trump became the first convicted felon to be elected President.