Richard Nixon, the then Vice President won the Republican nomination.
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Republican party candidate nominated for for presidency
Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman will open his national campaign headquarters in Orlando.
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The three top contenders for the 1860 presidential nomination for the Republican Party were William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase and Abraham Lincoln.
Ted Cruz is a Republican senator from Texas who is running for the presidential nomination in 2016.
Gramm made a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996.
He ran against Taft in 1912.
Jesse Jackson, Sr. was the first person of African descent to campaign for a major-party presidential nomination, in 1984 (the Democratic Party). Jesse Jackson competed for the Democratic Party Presidential Nomination again in 1988. Alan Keyes campaigned for the Republican Party Presidential Nomination in 1996, 2000 and 2008. Herman Cain campaigned for the Republican Party Presidential Nomination in 2000 and 2012. Al Sharpton and Carol Moseley Braun campaigned for the Democratic Party Presidential Nomination in 2004. On August 27, 2008, Barack Obama officially became the first person of African descent to receive a major-party U.S. Presidential Nomination.
Theodore Roosevelt (opposing William Howard Taft)
Ted Cruz dropped out of the presidential race because he was unable to secure enough delegates to win the Republican nomination.
No. Richard Nixon was a Republican Presidential candidate in the election of 1960.