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| 1774 | Gadsden, Christopher |  |
| Washington Leader of the Sth Caroliner radicals is elected delegate to the Continental Congress |
| 1789 | Washington, George | |
| Elected after the Federal Convention is created for organizing the Union of States |
| 1824 | Adams, John Quincy | |
| Nov Non of the presidential candidates has an overall majority |
| Nov The electoral college ends with Jackson 99, Adams 81, Crawford 41 & Clay 37 votes |
| 1824 | Clay, Henry | |
| Nov The electoral college ends with Jackson 99, Adams 81, Crawford 41 & Clay 37 votes |
| 1824 | Crawford, William | |
| Nov The electoral college ends with Jackson 99, Adams 81, Crawford 41 & Clay 37 votes |
| 1824 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| Nov The electoral college ends with Jackson 99, Adams 81, Crawford 41 & Clay 37 votes |
| 1825 | Adams, John Quincy | |
| 9th Feb Elected President in the House of Representitives |
| 1825 | Polk, James Knox | |
| Elected Member of the House of Representitives |
| 1832 | Buren, Martin van | |
| 5th Dec Wins election to become Vice President of the USA |
| 1832 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| 22nd May Wins the Democratic Presidential Nomination |
| 5th Dec Jackson wins the Election for a 2nd Presidential term |
| 1845 | Calhoun, John Caldwell | |
| Elected Senator |
| 1860 | Davis, Jefferson | |
| 18th Feb Elected President of the Confederacy |
| 1862 | Garfield, James Abram | |
| 19th Sep Elected to the United States House of Representatives |
| 1864 | Lincoln, Abraham | |
| Re-elected President of the USA on a National Union ticket with a large majority |
| 1876 | McKinley, William | |
| Elected Member of Congress |
| 1877 | Hayes, Rutherford Birchard | |
| Wins the election after an electoral commission rules in his favour |
| 1880 | Garfield, James Abram | |
| Elected Member of the Senate |
| Garfield defeats the Democratic candidate Winfield Scott Hancock, another distinguished former Union Army general, by 214 electoral votes to 155 |
| 1880 | Hancock, Winfield Scott | |
| Garfield defeats the Democratic candidate Winfield Scott Hancock, another distinguished former Union Army general, by 214 electoral votes to 155 |
| 1896 | McKinley, William | |
| Wins the presidential election for the 1st time |
| 1900 | McKinley, William | |
| Oct Wins the presidential election for the 2nd time |
| 1910 | Wilson, Thomas Woodrow | |
| New Jersey Elected Governor of New Jersey |
| 1912 | Wilson, Thomas Woodrow | |
| Nov Elected President of the USA |
| Nov Roosevelt splits the Republicans by forming the Progressive Party |
| 1915 | Harding, Warren Gamaliel | |
| Elected Senator |
| 1924 | Coolidge, Calvin | |
| Wins the Presidential election |
| 1928 | Hoover, Herbert Clerk | |
| 7th Nov Elected President of the USA, wins 58% of the popular vote |
| 7th Nov Wins 444 electoral votes to 87 for Alfred Smith |
| 1932 | Caraway, Hattie | |
| 12th Jan 1st woman elected to the USASenate |
| 1932 | Hoover, Herbert Clerk | |
| Defeated in the Presidential election by Roosevelt |
| 1932 | Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | |
| 8th Nov Wins 22 million votes |
| 8th Nov Wins good majorities in the House & the Senate, unprecedented in USAhistory |
| 1936 | Lodge, Henry Cabot | |
| Massachusetts Elected as a Republican to the United States Senate |
| 1937 | Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | |
| 20th Jan Wins all States except for Maine & Vermont in a landslide, success of his "new deal" |
| 1940 | Wilkie, Wendell | |
| Defeated by Roosevelt for the Presidency |
| 1944 | Dewey, Thomas Edmund | |
| 7th Nov New Yorkate Wins 21.9 million to Roosevelt's 25.6 million votes & loses his own state of New York |
| 1946 | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| Massachusetts Elected Member of the House of Representitives |
| 1946 | Lodge, Henry Cabot | |
| Massachusetts Elected as a Republican to the United States Senate |
| 1947 | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| Massachusetts Elected Congress man for Massachusetts 1947-1953 |
| 1952 | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| Elected Member of the Senate |
| 1952 | Lodge, Henry Cabot | |
| Defeated in his bid for reelection by Congress man John F Kennedy |
| 1960 | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| 26th Sep During a televised debate with Kennedy Nixon appears drawn & makes the mistake of using "lazy shave" face powder |
| 8th Nov Defeats Richard Nixon by 49.9% to 49.6% of the popular vote |
| 1960 | Kennedy, Robert Francis | |
| Manages successfully the presidential election campaign of his brother, JF Kennedy |
| 1960 | Lodge, Henry Cabot | |
| Unsuccessful Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States |
| 1961 | Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| Defeated by John F Kennedy in the Presidential elections |
| 1962 | Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| California Defeated in the elections to become the Governor of California |
| 1962 | Rumsfeld, Donald Henry | |
| Elected to the United States House of Representatives for the 13th Congress ional District in Illinois in 1962, at the age of 30 |
| 1962 | Walker, Edwin | |
| Stands for Governor of Texas , although he gained the support of Barry Goldwater Walker finishes last |
| 1964 | Lodge, Henry Cabot | |
| New Hampshire Victor of the Republican New Hampshire primary, defeating Goldwater & Rockefeller |
| 1966 | Bush, George Herbert Walker | |
| Elected to the House of Representatives |
| 1967 | Brooke, Edward | |
| 10th Jan Massachusetts Elected Senator for Massachusetts , 1st African-American senator |
| 1968 | Humphrey, Hubert | |
| 5th Nov Defeated by Richard Nixon by 31.7 million to 31.2 million votes |
| 1974 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Arkansas In his first year as a University of Arkansas law professor, Clinton runs for the House of Representatives, the incumbent, John Paul Hammerschmidt, defeats Clinton with 52% of the vote |
| 1976 | Carter, Jimmy | |
| 2nd Nov Jimmy Carter wins 51% of the popular vote & 297 electoral college votes |
| 1976 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Arkansas Elected to Congress from Arkansas |
| 1976 | Ford, Gerald | |
| 2nd Nov Gerald Ford wins 48% of the popular vote & 247 electoral college votes |
| 1977 | Carter, Jimmy | |
| Georgia Defeats Gerald Ford by 297 electoral votes to 240 |
| Defeats Gerald Ford by 297 electoral votes to Ford's 240 |
| 1978 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Arkansas First elected Governor of Arkansas , the youngest to be elected Governor since 1938 |
| 1980 | Carter, Jimmy | |
| Defeated by Ronald Reagan by 489 to 149 electoral votes |
| Winner of the Democrat Party nomination but defeated by Reagan in the elections |
| 1980 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Arkansas Clinton is defeated in his bid for a 2nd term by Republican challenger Frank D. White, he joked, he was the youngest ex-governor in the nation's history |
| 1982 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Arkansas Elected Governor of Arkansas |
| 1984 | Ferraro, Geradine | |
| Defeated Vice Presidential candidate |
| 1984 | Mondale, Walter | |
| 6th Nov Mondale is defeated by Reagan who wins 50 out of 51 states |
| 1986 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Arkansas Elected Governor of Arkansas |
| 1988 | Baker, James Addison | |
| Manages George Bush's presidential election campaign |
| 1989 | Rice, Condoleezza | |
| Appointed Adviser to the Bush administration on foreign policy and military issues |
| 1990 | Bush, George Walker | |
| 25th Feb The USAbacked coalition defeats Ortega's Sandanista government |
| 1990 | Wilder, Douglas | |
| 13th Jan Virginia 1st elected African-American Governor in the United States |
| 1993 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Wins the Presidential election (43.0% of the vote) against Republican George H. W. Bush (37.4% of the vote) & billionaire populist H. Ross Perot, who runs as an independent (18.9% of the vote) |
| 1994 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| The mid-term elections are disastrous for the Democrats, they lose control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years, because of Clinton's national healthcare policy |
| 1995 | Bush, George Walker | |
| Texas Elected Governor of Texas , narrowly defeats Al Gore |
| 2000 | Bush, George Walker | |
| 13th Dec Al Gore admits defeat to George Bush |
| 2004 | Bush, George Walker | |
| 2nd Nov Bush wins 50.9% of the vote, 31 states & 286 electoral votes |
| 2004 | Kerry, John | |
| 2nd Nov Kerry wins 48.1% od the vote, 19 states & 252 electoral votes |
| 2004 | Rice, Condoleezza | |
| April Rice becomes the first National Security Advisor to campaign for an incumbent President |
