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Also Rans: Losing Presidential Candidates of the United States

Alphabetical List of Losing Presidential Candidates of the United States

Each losing presidential candidate is listed alphabetically, with the election year indicated in parentheses. Links lead to the portion of the illustrated list that includes a portrait of the individual listed.

Adams, John Quincy (1820, 1828)

Anderson, John B. (1980)

Bell, John (1860)

Blaine, James G. (1884)

Breckinridge, John C. (1860)

Bryan, William J. (1896, 1900, 1908)

Burr, Aaron (1800)

Bush, George H. W. (1992)

Carter, Jimmy (1980)

Cass, Lewis (1848)

Clay, Henry (1824, 1832, 1844)

Cleveland, Grover (1888)

Clinton, DeWitt (1812)

Clinton, Hillary Rodham (2016)

Cox, James M. (1920)

Crawford, William H. (1824)

Davis, John W. (1924)

Dewey, Thomas E. (1944, 1948)

Dole, Robert J. (1996)

Douglas, Stephen A. (1860)

Dukakis, Michael (1988)

Fillmore, Millard (1856)

Ford, Gerald R. (1976)

Fremont, John C. (1856)

Goldwater, Barry M. (1964)

Gore, Albert (2000)

Greeley, Horace (1872)

Hancock, Winfield S. (1880)

Harrison, Benjamin (1892)

Harrison, William H. (1836)

Hoover, Herbert (1932)

Hughes, Charles E. (1916)

Humphrey, Hubert H. (1968)

Jackson, Andrew (1824)

Jefferson, Thomas (1796)

Kerry, John (2004)

King, Rufus (1816)

Lafollette, Robert M. (1924)

Landon, Alfred M. (1936)

McCain, John (2008)

McClellan, George (1864)

McGovern, George S. (1972)

Mondale, Walter F. (1984)

Nader, Ralph (2000, 2004, 2008)

Nixon, Richard M. (1960)

Parker, Alton B. (1904)

Perot, H. Ross (1992, 1996)

Pinckney, Charles C. (1804, 1808)

Romney, Mitt (2012)

Roosevelt, Theodore (1912)

Scott, Winfield (1852)

Seymour, Horatio (1868)

Smith, Alfred E. (1928)

Stevenson, Adlai E. (1952, 1956)

Taft, William H. (1912)

Thomas, Norman (1932)

Thurmond, J. Strom (1948)

Tilden, Samuel J. (1876)

Trump, Donald (2020)

Van Buren, Martin (1840, 1848)

Wallace, George C. (1968)

Wallace, Henry A. (1948)

Weaver, James B. (1892)

Willkie, Wendell L. (1940)