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1952 Election
When President Harry S. Truman declined to run for a third term, the Democratic convention nominated Governor Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois for president on the third ballot.
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Henry A. Kissinger
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1864 Election
The 1864 election, held during the Civil War, pitted President Abraham Lincoln against Democrat George B. McClellan.
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1860 Election
The 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln contributed to the secession of the Southern states and the outbreak of the Civil War.
Despite suffering a heart attack and abdominal surgery during his first term, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was nominated by the Republicans for a second term without opposition. Although Richard M. Nixon had been a controversial vice president and many Republicans felt he was a liability, he was also renominated. For the second time the Democrats chose former governor Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois; his running mate was Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.
Foreign policy dominated the campaign. Eisenhower claimed responsibility for the country's being prosperous and at peace; Stevenson proposed ending the draft and halting nuclear testing. The Suez Canal crisis, occurring in the final weeks of the campaign, created a sense of emergency, and the country responded by voting strongly against change.
Eisenhower won with 35,590,472 votes to Stevenson's 26,022,752. His margin was 457 to 73 in the electoral college.
The Reader's Companion to American History. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, Editors. Copyright © 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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