Statistics for Losing U.S. Presidential Candidates by Prior Offices

Click here to take the quiz!

General Stats
Answer Stats
Score Distribution
Your Score History

General Stats

This quiz has been taken 24 times
The average score is 41 of 57

Answer Stats

Political Party	Prior Offices	Presidential Candidate	% Correct
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from TN-4, TN-6; U.S. Senator from Tennessee; Vice President	Al Gore	95%
Democratic	First Lady of Arkansas; First Lady of the United States; U.S. Senator from New York; Secretary of State	Hillary Clinton	95%
Democratic	Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts	John Kerry	95%
Republican	Member of the U.S. House from AZ-1; U.S. Senator from Arizona	John McCain	95%
Republican	Governor of Massachusetts	Mitt Romney	95%
Republican	Member of the U.S. House from CA-12; U.S. Senator from California; Vice President	Richard Nixon	95%
Republican	U.S. Senator from Arizona	Barry Goldwater	91%
Republican	Member of the Kansas House of Representatives; County Attorney of Russell County; Member of the U.S. House from KS-6, KS-1; U.S. Senator from Kansas and Senate Majority Leader and Chair of the RNC	Bob Dole	91%
Republican	Member of the U.S. House from TX-7; Ambassador to the United Nations; Chair of the RNC; Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to China; Director of Central Intelligence; Vice President; President	George H.W. Bush	91%
Democratic	Member of the Georgia State Senate; Governor of Georgia; President	Jimmy Carter	91%
None	None (Founder and CEO of Electronic Data Systems)	Ross Perot	91%
Democratic	Attorney General of Minnesota; U.S. Senator from Minnesota; Vice President	Walter Mondale	91%
Republican	Member of the U.S. House from MI-5 and House Minority Leader; Vice President; President	Gerald Ford	86%
Republican	Director of the U.S. Food Administration; Secretary of Commerce; President	Herbert Hoover	86%
Federalist	Delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts; Envoy to France; Minister to the Netherlands; Minister to the United Kingdom; Vice President; President	John Adams	86%
Democratic	Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; Governor of Massachusetts	Michael Dukakis	86%
Democratic	Mayor of Minneapolis; U.S. Senator from Minnesota; Vice President	Hubert Humphrey	82%
Progressive	Member of the New York State Assembly; President of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Governor of New York; Vice President; President	Theodore Roosevelt	82%
Democratic-Republican	Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia; Governor of Virginia; Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation; Minister Plenipotentiary; Minister to France; Secretary of State	Thomas Jefferson	82%
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from SD-1; Director of Food for Peace; U.S. Senator from South Dakota	George McGovern	77%
American Independent	Governor of Alabama; First Gentleman of Alabama	George Wallace	77%
Republican	U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York; District Attorney of New York County; Governor of New York	Thomas Dewey	73%
Republican	U.S. Solicitor General; Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; Governor-General of the Philippines; Provisional Governor of Cuba; Secretary of War; President	William Howard Taft	73%
Democratic	Governor of Illinois	Adlai Stevenson	68%
Republican	Governor of Kansas	Alf Landon	68%
Democratic	Member of the New York Assembly; Sheriff of New York County; President of the New York City Board of Alderman; Governor of New York	Al Smith	68%
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from TN-at-large; Justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court; Territorial Governor of Florida; U.S. Senator from Tennessee	Andrew Jackson	68%
Federalist	Minister to France	Charles Pinckney	68%
Democratic	4th Commanding General of the U.S. Army	George McClellan	68%
Democratic	Sheriff of Erie County; Mayor of Buffalo; Governor of New York; President	Grover Cleveland	68%
Democratic-Republican; National Republican; Whig	Member of the U.S. House from KY-5, KY-2, KY-3 and Speaker of the House; Senator from Kentucky; Secretary of State	Henry Clay	68%
National Republican	Member of the Massachusetts Senate; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Secretary of State; President	John Quincy Adams	68%
Republican	None (Commonwealth & Southern Executive)	Wendell Willkie	68%
Federalist	U.S. Senator from New York; Mayor of New York City; Lieutenant Governor of New York	Dewitt Clinton	64%
Republican	Member of the U.S. House from ME-3 and Speaker of the House; U.S. Senator from Maine; Secretary of State	James Blaine	64%
Progressive	Member of the U.S. House from WI-3; Governor of Wisconsin; U.S. Senator from Wisconsin	Robert La Follette, Sr.	64%
Federalist	U.S. Senator from New York; Minister to the United Kingdom	Rufus King	64%
Democratic	Secretary of State of Illinois; Associate Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court; Member of the U.S. House from IL-5; U.S. Senator from Illinois	Stephen Douglas	64%
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from NE-1	William Jennings Bryan	64%
Republican	U.S. Senator from Indiana; President	Benjamin Harrison	59%
Republican	Governor of New York; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	Charles Evans Hughes	59%
Liberal Republican + Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from NY-6	Horace Greeley	59%
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from OH-3; Governor of Ohio	James Cox	59%
Constitutional Union	Member of the Tennessee Senate; Member of the U.S. House from TN-7 and Speaker of the House; Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives; Secretary of War; U.S. Senator from Tennessee	John Bell	59%
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from KY-8; Vice President	John Breckinridge	59%
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from WV-1; Solicitor General; Ambassador to the United Kingdom	John Davis	59%
Republican	Military Governor of California; U.S. Senator from California	John Fremont	59%
Democratic; Free Soil	Surrogate of Columbia County; Member of the New York Senate; Attorney General of New York; U.S. Senator from New York; Governor of New York; Secretary of State; Minister to the United Kingdom; Vice President; President	Martin Van Buren	59%
American (Know Nothing)	Comptroller of New York; Member of the U.S. House from NY-32 and Chair of the Ways and Means Committee; Vice President; President	Millard Fillmore	59%
Democratic	Corporation Counsel of New York City; Member of the New York State Assembly from New York County; Governor of New York	Samuel Tilden	59%
Whig	Secretary of the Northwest Territory; Delegate to the U.S. House from the Northwest Territory; Governor of the Indiana Territory; Member of the U.S. House from OH-1; Member of the Ohio Senate; U.S. Senator from Ohio; Minister to Gran Colombia	William Henry Harrison	59%
Democratic	Major General in the U.S. Army	Winfield Hancock	59%
Whig	3rd Commanding General of the U.S. Army	Winfield Scott	59%
Democratic	Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals	Alton B. Parker	55%
Democratic	Mayor of Utica; Member of the New York State Assembly from Oneida County and Speaker of the New York State Assembly; Governor of New York	Horatio Seymour	55%
Democratic	Governor of the Michigan Territory; Secretary of War; Ambassador to France; U.S. Senator from Michigan	Lewis Cass	55%
Democratic-Republican	U.S. Senator from Georgia and president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate; Minister to France; Secretary of War; Secretary of the Treasury	William Crawford	55%