Franklin Roosevelt (Democrat) ran against incumbent Herbert Hoover(Republican) in 1932.
Minor party candidates were Norman Thomas (Socialist) , William Foster (Communist), William Upshaw (Prohibition) , William Harvey ( Liberty) and Verne Reynolds ( Socialist - Labor)
Major party candidates were
1932: Herbert Hoover (R) vs, Franklin Roosevelt (D)
1936: Alf Landon (R) vs Franklin Roosevelt (D)
1940: Thomas Dewey )R) vs Franklin Roosevelt (D)
Herbert Hoover who served from 1929-1933 and was not re-elected to a second term.
William bankhead vs Joseph martin
John B. Anderson ran for president in 1980, and was an independent.
No one in the US. Presidential elections were held in 1936 and 1940. but not 1938.
The US vice president Joe Biden, ran for re-election this year and won.
The first presidential election was in 1788 and George Washington won and became the president of the United States. He ran unopposed.
president election republican Herbert Hoover ran against Democrat Al Smith
Joseph Smith, Jr. ran for President of the United States of America in the 1844 election. He ran as an independent. He was murdered in June, 1844, before the election took place. To read an article about Joseph Smith's campaign for the presidency, click the "Related Link" below.
There was no US election in 1945. The election was in 1944, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term. Unfortunately, he did not live to complete it, and his sudden death in 1945 meant his vice president, Harry S. Truman, became the president.
In the 2008 US presidential election Barak Obama won the election. He ran as a Democrat.
He served one term as US Senator from Indiana. He ran for governor of Indiana but lost the election.
Abraham Lincoln ran for president twice, in 1860 and 1864.
Yes, Gerald Ford became President in 1974 without an election.
John Adams and his vice president Charles Pickney ran as Federalist ain 1796 and 1800. After Adams lost , the Federalists began to break up and were not a national force in future elections. Thomas Jefferson and his vice president Aaron Burr ran against him