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Has an incumbent president ever run for re-election with a different vice-presidential candidate?
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Yes- Ronald Reagan challenged Ford for the nomination in 1976 .
Ted Kennedy challenged Carter in 1980.
Bobby Kennedy ran against Lyndon Johnson in 1968 and did so well that Johnson dropped out.
In 1912, ex-President Roosevelt failed to take the Republican nomination from incumbent President Taft , so he formed his own party and ran against him for president.
President Fillmore actually lost the Whig nomination to Winfield Scott in 1852 . President Pierce lost the nomination to James Buchanan in 1856.
President Arthur lost the republican nomination to James Blaine in 1884.
President Andrew Johnson, who had been elected as a Republican, tried for the Democratic nomination in 1868, but lost.
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- 1804: Jefferson dumped Aaron Burr and ran with George Clinton;
- 1812: George Clinton died, so Madison ran with Elbridge Gerry;
- 1828: John Quincy Adams chose Richard Rush when he ran for reelection;
- 1832: John C. Calhoun resigned, so Jackson ran with Martin Van Buren;
- 1864: Lincoln dumped Hannibal Hamlin and ran with Andrew Johnson;
- 1872: Grant dumped Schuyler Colfax and ran with Henry Wilson;
- 1888: Thomas A. Hendricks died, so Grover Cleveland ran with Allen G. Thurman;
- 1892: Benjamin Harrison dropped Levi Morton and ran with Whitelaw Reid;
- 1900: Garrett Hobart died, and McKinley ran with Teddy Roosevelt;
- 1912: Nicholas Butler was selected to replace Taft's running mate James S. Sherman, who died about a week before Election Day;
- 1940 & 1944: FDR dumped John Nance Garner for Henry Wallace, who was then dumped for Harry Truman; and
- 1976: Ford dumped Nelson Rockefeller to run with Robert Dole.
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