Losing U.S. Presidential Candidates by Prior Offices

Name the losing presidential candidates who got at least 10% of the vote by their background credentials! Presidential candidates taken from here. For multiple-time candidates, all offices prior to their final presidential run are included. The boxed answers are those that were the losing candidate while incumbent president.
Includes major government or political offices. Military and private offices are listed only in the absence of other offices.
Political party is the party affiliation when the candidate lost a presidential race. This is provided to make this quiz more feasible. The candidates that ran multiple times with different parties have all those parties listed.
I would like for this to be randomized but it's currently not possible
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Prior Offices
Presidential Candidate
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
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
Federalist
Minister to France
Charles Pinckney
Federalist
U.S. Senator from New York; Mayor of New York City; Lieutenant Governor of New York
Dewitt Clinton
Federalist
U.S. Senator from New York; Minister to the United Kingdom
Rufus King
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
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
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
National Republican
Member of the Massachusetts Senate; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Secretary of State; President
John Quincy Adams
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
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
Democratic
Governor of the Michigan Territory; Secretary of War; Ambassador to France; U.S. Senator from Michigan
Lewis Cass
Whig
3rd Commanding General of the U.S. Army
Winfield Scott
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
Republican
Military Governor of California; U.S. Senator from California
John Fremont
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
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
Democratic
Member of the U.S. House from KY-8; Vice President
John Breckinridge
Democratic
4th Commanding General of the U.S. Army
George McClellan
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
Liberal Republican + Democratic
Member of the U.S. House from NY-6
Horace Greeley
Democratic
Corporation Counsel of New York City; Member of the New York State Assembly from New York County; Governor of New York
Samuel Tilden
Democratic
Major General in the U.S. Army
Winfield Hancock
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
Democratic
Sheriff of Erie County; Mayor of Buffalo; Governor of New York; President
Grover Cleveland
Republican
U.S. Senator from Indiana; President
Benjamin Harrison
Democratic
Member of the U.S. House from NE-1
William Jennings Bryan
Democratic
Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Alton B. Parker
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
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
Republican
Governor of New York; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Charles Evans Hughes
Democratic
Member of the U.S. House from OH-3; Governor of Ohio
James Cox
Progressive
Member of the U.S. House from WI-3; Governor of Wisconsin; U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
Robert La Follette, Sr.
Democratic
Member of the U.S. House from WV-1; Solicitor General; Ambassador to the United Kingdom
John Davis
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
Republican
Director of the U.S. Food Administration; Secretary of Commerce; President
Herbert Hoover
Republican
Governor of Kansas
Alf Landon
Republican
None (Commonwealth & Southern Executive)
Wendell Willkie
Republican
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York; District Attorney of New York County; Governor of New York
Thomas Dewey
Democratic
Governor of Illinois
Adlai Stevenson
Republican
Member of the U.S. House from CA-12; U.S. Senator from California; Vice President
Richard Nixon
Republican
U.S. Senator from Arizona
Barry Goldwater
American Independent
Governor of Alabama; First Gentleman of Alabama
George Wallace
Democratic
Mayor of Minneapolis; U.S. Senator from Minnesota; Vice President
Hubert Humphrey
Democratic
Member of the U.S. House from SD-1; Director of Food for Peace; U.S. Senator from South Dakota
George McGovern
Republican
Member of the U.S. House from MI-5 and House Minority Leader; Vice President; President
Gerald Ford
Democratic
Member of the Georgia State Senate; Governor of Georgia; President
Jimmy Carter
Democratic
Attorney General of Minnesota; U.S. Senator from Minnesota; Vice President
Walter Mondale
Democratic
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; Governor of Massachusetts
Michael Dukakis
None
None (Founder and CEO of Electronic Data Systems)
Ross Perot
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
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
Democratic
Member of the U.S. House from TN-4, TN-6; U.S. Senator from Tennessee; Vice President
Al Gore
Democratic
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
John Kerry
Republican
Member of the U.S. House from AZ-1; U.S. Senator from Arizona
John McCain
Republican
Governor of Massachusetts
Mitt Romney
Democratic
First Lady of Arkansas; First Lady of the United States; U.S. Senator from New York; Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton
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