fascinating 1848 campaign, to understand some present political dynamics, and brace for the future, by realizing how damaging Taylor’s candidacy — and ultimately his presidency — was for the ...

In the democratic election of December 1848, Napoleon’s nephew finally fulfilled his ambitions: he won the presidency by a ...

On the list of U.S. presidents, several have been tapped by voters to serve for more than one term, with Donald Trump joining ...

Martin Van Buren, a Democrat during his first term (1837 to 1841), ran again in 1848 on the Free Soil platform. Millard ...

If reelected, Trump would only be the second president to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in the late ...

President James K. Polk ... Gold Rush with his State of the Union address on this day in history, Dec. 5, 1848. "The accounts of abundance of gold are of such an extraordinary character as ...

A handful of presidents tried to get back into the White House and failed. Some examples include Martin Van Buren in 1844 and 1848; Millard Fillmore in 1856; Ulysses S. Grant in 1880, in the era ...

The AP has counted the vote on which many leading news organizations base their projections and declare winners since 1848. In the 2020 presidential election, AP declared Joe Biden the winner four ...

Many of the races that are called just as the polls close are uncontested elections, according to the Associated Press.

In the United States, the Electoral College determines who will become president and vice president, according to the U.S. Constitution. Florida has 30 of the 538 Electoral College votes in the 2024 ...