Failed US Presidential Nominees

All Republican and Democratic nominees for president from 1856 to 2016 who failed to win the general election
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Last updated: August 13, 2017
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1856
John C. Fremont
1860
Stephen A. Douglas
1864
George B. McClellan
1868
Horatio Seymour
1872
Horace Greeley
1876
Samuel J. Tilden
1880
Winfield S. Hannock
1884
James G. Blaine
1888
Grover Cleveland
1892
Benjamin Harrison
1896
William Jennings Bryan
1900
William Jennings Bryan
1904
Alton B. Parker
1908
William Jennings Bryan
1912
Howard Taft
1916
Charles E. Hughes
1920
James M. Cox
1924
John W. Davis
1928
Al Smith
1932
Herbert Hoover
1936
Alf Landon
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1940
Wendell Willkie
1944
Thomas E. Dewey
1948
Thomas E. Dewey
1952
Adlai Stevenson
1956
Adlai Stevenson
1960
Richard Nixon
1964
Barry Goldwater
1968
Hubert Humphrey
1972
George McGovern
1976
Gerald Ford
1980
Jimmy Carter
1984
Walter Mondale
1988
Michael Dukakis
1992
George H.W. Bush
1996
Bob Dole
2000
Al Gore
2004
John Kerry
2008
John McCain
2012
Mitt Romney
2016
Hillary Clinton
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Nov 6, 2016
Good quiz. Poor William Jennings Bryan, Thomas Dewey, and Adlai Stevenson. Obviously very well known politicians in their times, able to win the nomination more than once in their parties, but just weren't able to pull it off.