Alf Landon, the Governor of Kansas. Landon was a moderate who generally supported the New Deal but criticised the way Roosevelt ran the programs. He was never a strong campaigner, indeed one newspaper ran a spoof "Missing Person" ad saying that the Governor had disappeared. Rosevelt defeated Landon with 60.8% of the vote and carried every state apart from Maine and Vermont. The election completely destroyed Maine's reputatation for being a swing state.
Thomas Jefferson
Alf Landon
In 1924, the republican candidate for the presidency was Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge won the election with 54 percent of the vote.
Warren G. Harding
Republican party candidate nominated for for presidency
Kansas Governor Alf Landon
no he became president after jfk was assassinated in 1963. he was republican. never elected to the presidency though
The republican candidate for president of the United States in 2012 was Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts. He lost the General Election to Barack Obama.
The candidate for the Democratic-Republican Party in the election of 1796 was Thomas Jefferson. He ran against John Adams of the Federalist Party and ultimately became the vice-president after Adams won the presidency.
The Republican candidate for president in 1920 was Warren G. Harding. Harding won that election by defeating Democrat James M. Cox. President Harding served as the 29th President from 1921 until his death on August 2, 1923.
Yes, but no, the republican party first won a presidency in Abrahm Lincoln, but this was a fragmentation of a larger party.
The first black candidate nominated for US presidency was Frederick Douglass. His nomination was from the Kentucky delegation during the June 23, 1888 Republican convention.