Election Losers

This quiz will quiz you on losers in American election history. If there was no challenger, it won't be included.
Name the failed candidate by their first and last name, middle names or initials will not be included
Only exception to no middle names is
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Last updated: January 7, 2021
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Election Year
Failed Candidate
1796
Thomas Jefferson
1800
John Adams
1804
Charles Pinckney
1808
Charles Pinckney
1812
DeWitt Clinton
1816
Rufus King
1824
Andrew Jackson | William Crawford | Henry Clay
1828
John Adams
1832
Henry Clay
1836
William Harrison | Hugh White | Daniel Webster | Willie Mangum
1840
Martin Van Buren
1844
Henry Clay
1848
Lewis Cass | Martin Van Buren
1852
Winfield Scott
1856
John Frémont | Millard Filmore
1860
John Beckinridge | John Bell | Stephen Douglas
1864
George McClellan
1868
Horatio Seymour
1872
Thomas Hendricks | Horace Greeley | Charles Jenkins | David Davis |
1876
Samuel Tilden
1880
Winfield Hancock
1884
James Blaine
1888
Grover Cleveland
1892
Benjamin Harrison | James Weaver
1896
William Bryan
1900
William Bryan
1904
Alton Parker
1908
William Bryan
Election Year
Failed Candidate
1912
Theodore Roosevelt | William Taft | Eugene Debs
1916
Charles Hughes
1920
James Cox
1924
John Davis | Robert La Follette
1928
Al Smith
1932
Herbert Hoover
1936
Alf Landon
1940
Wendell Willkie
1944
Thomas Dewey
1948
Thomas Dewey | Strom Thurmond
1952
Adlai Stevenson
1956
Adlai Stevenson
1960
Richard Nixon
1964
Barry Goldwater
1968
Hubert Humphrey | George Wallace
1972
George McGovern
1976
Gerald Ford
1980
Jimmy Carter | John Anderson
1984
Walter Mondale
1988
Michael Dukakis
1992
George Bush | Ross Perot
1996
Bob Dole | Ross Perot
2000
Al Gore
2004
John Kerry
2008
John McCain
2012
Mitt Romney
2016
Hillary Clinton
2020
Donald Trump
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Level 84
Aug 13, 2020
I typed the letter C and I got 1872.
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Level 29
Aug 14, 2020
i dont know why lol ill go try to fix that