TABLE 2 -- U. S. Presidential Elections 1789 - 1992

(Winner listed first - military veterans in capital letters)
1789 GEORGE WASHINGTON John Adams
1792 GEORGE WASHINGTON John Adams GEORGE CLINTON
1796 John Adams Thomas Jefferson Thomas Pinckney AARON BURR
1800 Thomas Jefferson John Adams AARON BURR CHARLES C. PINCKNEY
1804 Thomas Jefferson CHARLES C. PINCKNEY
1808 James Madison CHARLES C. PINCKNEY
1812 James Madison DeWitt Clinton
1816 JAMES MONROE RUFUS KING
1820 JAMES MONROE John Q. Adams
1824 John Q. Adams ANDREW JACKSON Henry Clay William H. Crawford
1828 ANDREW JACKSON John Q. Adams
1832 ANDREW JACKSON Henry Clay WILLIAM WIRT
1836 Martin Van Buren WILLIAM H. HARRISON HUGH L. WHITE Daniel Webster
1840 WILLIAM H. HARRISON Martin Van Buren
1844 James K. Polk Henry Clay
1848 ZACHARY TAYLOR LEWIS CASS Martin Van Buren
1852 Franklin Pierce WINFIELD SCOTT
1856 JAMES BUCHANAN JOHN C. FREMONT Millard Fillmore
1860 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Stephen A. Douglas JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE
1864<> ABRAHAM LINCOLN GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN
1868 ULYSSES S. GRANT Horatio Seymour
1872 ULYSSES S. GRANT Horace Greeley
1876 RUTHERFORD B. HAYES Samuel J. Tilden
1880 JAMES A. GARFIELD WINFIELD S. HANCOCK
1884 Grover Cleveland James G. Blaine
1888 BENJAMIN HARRISON Grover Cleveland
1892 Grover Cleveland BENJAMIN HARRISON JAMES B. WEAVER
1896 WILLIAM MCKINLEY WILLIAM J. BRYAN
1900 WILLIAM MCKINLEY WILLIAM J. BRYAN
1904 THEODORE ROOSEVELT Alton B. Parker Eugene V. Debs
1908 William H. Taft WILLIAM J. BRYAN Eugene V. Debs
1912 Woodrow Wilson THEODORE ROOSEVELT William H. Taft Eugene V. Debs
1916 Woodrow Wilson Charles E. Hughes
1920 Warren G. Harding James M. Cox Eugene V. Debs
1924 Calvin Coolidge John W. Davis Robert M. La Follette
1928 Herbert C. Hoover Alfred E. Smith
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert C. Hoover
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt Alfred M. Landon
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt WENDELL L. WILLKIE
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt Thomas E. Dewey
1948 HARRY S TRUMAN Thomas E. Dewey J. STROM THURMOND Henry A. Wallace
1952 DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Adlai E. Stevenson
1956 DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Adlai E. Stevenson
1960 JOHN F. KENNEDY RICHARD M. NIXON
1964 LYNDON B. JOHNSON BARRY M. GOLDWATER
1968 RICHARD M. NIXON Hubert H. Humphrey GEORGE C. WALLACE
1972 RICHARD M. NIXON
1976 JIMMY CARTER GERALD R. FORD
1980 RONALD W. REAGAN JIMMY CARTER John B. Anderson
1984 RONALD W. REAGAN WALTER F. MONDALE
1988 GEORGE H. W. BUSH MICHAEL S. DUKAKIS
1992 William J. Clinton GEORGE H. W. BUSH H. ROSS PEROT
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