John Bell from Tennessee was the Constitutional Party presidential candidate in the 1860 presidential election. John Bell was the U.S. Senator from Tennessee 1847 - 1859. Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.
Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States, ran for President in 2000. He lost to George W. Bush.
At the time they ran for Vice President, Tennessee was the home state of Andrew Johnson and Al Gore.
Polk was active in Tennessee politics when he ran for President.
Andrew Johnson was then consequently the vice president, and after that, when Lincoln was assassinated, we was the president himself.
The 17th President of the United States was Andrew Johnson. He was from Tennessee. However, Tennessee does not there own president.
He was elected as a Tennessee Congressman in 1822 and served in that position for two terms from 1823 to 1827.He did not seek reelection, but ran for and won the position of Tennessee Governor.
Although Presidents Jackson, Polk and A. Johnson and Vice President Gore represented Tennessee when elected, no U. S. President or Vice President to date has been born in Tennessee.
No U.S. president lives in Tennessee. Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, and James Polk lived in Tennessee almost all of their adult lives and all are buried in Tennessee, but no president has been born in Tennessee.
Jesse Jackson ran for president in 1988.
Nixon was elected to two terms. He ran for President in 1968 and 1971.
US President Andrew Johnson became the US president, from his position as Vice President in 1865 due to the assassination of US President Lincoln. From 1862 to 1865 Johnson served as the military governor of occupied Tennessee.
Andrew Jackson first ran for president in the year 1824. He did not win the election that year but was elected in 1828 and served as the 7th President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.
Dick Chaney ran for Vice President and who is also our Vice President today.