Incumbent U. S. Presidents Who Could Have Run Again but Chose Not To:
Only two modern incumbent Democrats ran for re-election and lost,. They were Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Grover Cleveland in 1888. Cleveland ran again in 1892 and won. Martin Van Buren of the pre Civil War Democrats lost his re-eleciton bid 1840 and James Knox Polk chose not to run again in 1848.
Of the 57 U. S. presidential elections to date, the incumbent president was reelected in 22 of them.
In ten elections, the incumbent president was nominated but lost the election:
John Adams lost to Thomas Jefferson in 1800.
John Quincy Adams lost to Andrew Jackson in 1828.
Martin Van Buren lost to William Henry Harrison in 1840.
Grover Cleveland lost to Benjamin Harrison in 1888.
Benjamin Harrison lost to Grover Cleveland in 1892.
William Howard Taft lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1912.
Herbert Hoover lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.
Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Jimmy Carter lost to Ronald Reagan in 1980.
George H. W. Bush lost to Bill Clinton in 1992.
(Grover Cleveland lost while running as the incumbent president but won four years later.)
Eight others either chose not to run or failed to win their party's nomination:
John Tyler, 1844
James K. Polk, 1848
Millard Fillmore, 1852
Franklin Pierce, 1856
James Buchanan, 1860
Andrew Johnson, 1868
Rutherford B. Hayes, 1880
Chester A. Arthur, 1884
The incumbent presidents who ran for re-election but lost were
John Adams (in 1800)
John Quincy Adams (in 1828)
Martin Van Buren (in 1840)
Benjamin Harrison (in 1892)
William Howard Taft ( in 1912)
Herbert Hoover (in 1932)
Gerald Ford (in 1976)
Jimmy Carter (in 1980)
George H. W. Bush (in 1992)
Theodore Roosevelt agreed to leave office in 1908 but in 1912 lost a bid for another term, running as a third-party candidate when he failed to get the Republican nomination.
Incumbents Millard Fillmore (1852), Franklin Pierce (1856) and Chester Arthur (1884) ran for the nomination of their party but lost. Andrew Johnson was a candidate for nomination by the opposition Democratic party, but lost his bid in 1868.
Incumbents Polk (1848), Hayes (1880), Coolidge (1928),Truman (1952) and L. Johnson (1968) chose not to run again for varying reasons.
10 have been reelected, you do the math
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Chose not to run for reelection.
Nancy Pelosi must run for reelection like all Members of the Legislature.
Chose not to run for reelection.
chose not to run for reelection. (apex)
Six years; presidents are non-eligible for reelection.
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McKinney wasn't elected in 1990. He was dead by 1990.
The candidacies weakened support for President Johnson and convinced him not to run for reelection
No, he was assassinated, dead men can't run for president.
Only 15 or 42 US presidents have won at least two consecutive terms. This gives about 36%. About 70 percent of those who have served as president since 1825 (or 26 of 37 men) failed to win the election for two consecutive terms. This is either because they died, didn't run again, or lost their party or national election. In the US, of the 42 presidents before Obama, only 15 won reelection. 12 didn't run again (because of death, etc.), 18 lost in either their bid for party nomination or in a national election.
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