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Most of the nation expected Dewey to win instead of Truman.
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1892 was the year he lost he presidential election to Grover Cleveland.
Lincoln was elected for the first time in November of 1860.
The ONLY two Federalists to win the presidential election were John Adams and of course George Washington.
In the 1860 presidential election, Lincoln did not win in the State of Kentucky. The winner there was John Breckenridge.
John Kennedy was the youngest to win a presidential election.
Truman's presidential election was so surprising because there was a republican controlled congress at the time. Truman was a democrat, therefore he had a disadvantage to the republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey
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The 1948 presidential election was won by the Democratic Party led by Harry S. Truman. Truman received a total of 303 electoral votes, not 39. His victory was considered a major upset, as many polls had predicted a win for his Republican opponent, Thomas E. Dewey.