Who ran for president 3 times and only won once?

Answer 1

Franklin Roosevelt was the only one who was elected three times or more.

Grover Cleveland ran as a Democrat three times and won two times.

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson came in second the first time they ran and then won the next two times. Neither actually ran , in the modern sense of a campaign, the first time that they received electoral votes.

William Jennings Bryan ran three times for the Democrats and lost three times.

Henry Clay was a candidate one time before national parties were formed and then ran two more times as the Whig candidate.

Martin Van Buren ran for a third time on the minor Free Soil ticket.

Several minor party candidates ran three or more times. Norman Thomas and Eugene Debs, for example, were perennial third party candidates.

Answer 2

Not counting failed attempts to gain a party nomination, the only person who won one AND lost two U. S. Presidential Elections was Martin Van Buren (won in 1836, lost in 1840 and 1848).

Answer 3

Grover Cleveland

Answer 4

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 5

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