1897 was an election year. In 1896 McKinley won over William Jennings Bryan from Nebraska.
He ran against President John Adams
Barack Obama.
Paul Ryan is a United States Representative from Wisconsin. He also ran for Vice President of the United States in the 2012 election.
Barack Obama
No one "ran" the Northern States (The Union) - the President of the United States at the time was Abraham Lincoln.
Ulysses S. Grant
he got elected president when he ran for it. He was also a vice president before he was the president of united states.
Gus Hall ran for President of the United States four times in a row and was defeated each time. He ran in 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984.
George Washington ran a plantation, he was a general and he was the First President of the United States of America.
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.
In the United States there are two main people who ran for president in 1876. Their political parties were the Democrats who nominated Samuel Tilden and Republicans who had Rutherford B. Hayes as their candidate. .
Hancock ran for President of the United States on the Democratic ticket, losing to Garfield.