President Millard Fillmore was a Whig and sought to be nominated by the Whigs for the 1852 US presidential election. His attempt was blocked by members of his own party. Northern anti-slavery Whigs used their power to have General Winfield Scott be the Whig candidate. Scott lost the 1852 election to Democrat Franklin Pierce.
President William Taft was the Republican Party candidate in the 1912 presidential election .
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon.
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They nominate before every election, which is every four years.
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primary election
No. Several Presidents were governors or held other political office prior to becoming President. Some held no political office at all.
That is an election held by a political party as part of the process of nominating a candidate to represent the party in the presidential election.
The outcome of the 1796 presidential election was controversial because it resulted in the first contested election in American history. The Federalist candidate John Adams narrowly defeated the Democratic-Republican candidate Thomas Jefferson, but Adams's vice president was Jefferson's political rival, Thomas Pinckney. This created tension and a sense of political instability, as the president and vice president were from opposing parties.