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Dem.........-.- «.....John P. Hale. Defeated. Democratic........... 1856..James Buchanan. Elected, Party. Year. Candidates. Republican.................John C. Frémont. Defeated. American..................Millard Fill more. Defeated. This was the first appearance of the present Republican party in the field of national politics. ‘Their National Convention was held in Philadelphia. Party. Year. Candidates, Republican........... 1860..Abraham Lincoln. Elected. Democratic.................J. C. Breckinridge. Defeated. Constitutional Union........John Bell. Defeated. Independent Dem..........Stephen A. Douglas. Defeated. Republican........... 1864..Abraham Lincoln. Elected. Democratic.................George B. McClellan. Defeated. Republican........... 1868..U.S. Grant. Elected. Democratic.................H. Seymour. Defeated. Republican........... 1872..U. S. Grant. Elected. Dem. and Liberty..........H. Greeley. Defeated. Democratic.................Charles O’Conor. Defeated. Oppos. Dem................Thos, A. Hendricks. Defeated, Temperance................James Black. Defeated., Oppos. Dem................B. Gratz Brown. Defeated. Oppos. Dem................C. J. Jenkins. Defeated. Oppos. Dem................David Davis. Defeated. Republican........... 1876..R. B. Hayes. Flected. Democratic.................S.J. Tilden. Defeated. Greenback.................Peter Cooper. Defeated. Pro hi hit i on.................G. Clay Smith. Defeated. Republican........... 1880..James A. Garfield. Elected. Democratic.................W.S. Hancock. Defeated. Greenback.................J. B. Weaver. Defeated. Prohibition.................Neal Dow. Defeated. American...................John W. Phelps. Defeated. Democratic........... 1884..Grover Cleveland. Elected, Republican.................J. G. Blaine. Defeated. Prohibition.................J. P. St. John. Defeated. Greenback.................B. F. Butler. Defeated. Republican........... 1888..Benj. Harrison. Elected. Democratic.................Grover Cleveland. Defeated. Prohibition...............C. B. Fisk. Defeated. Union Labor...............A. J. Streeter. Defeated.; Party. Year. Candidates, American...................J. L. Curtis. Defeated. Union Labor................R. H. Cowdrey. Defeated. Kqeel Rights...............Belva Lock wood. Defeated. Indus. Reform..............A. E. Red stone. Defeated. Democratic........... 1892..Grover Cleveland. Elected. Republican.................Benj. Harrison. Defeated. People’s....................J. B. Weaver. Defeated. Prohibition.................J. Bid well. Defeated. Socialist-Labor............Simon Wing. Defeated. Republican........... 1896.. William McKinley. Elected. Democratic................Witliam J. Bryan. Defeated. Prohibition.................J. Levering. Defeated. People’s............+......W. J. Bryan. Defeated. Socialist-Labor..............C. B. Matchett. Defeated. National...................C. E. Bentley. Defeated, Nat. Dem..............-...J. M. Palmer. Defeated. Of the succe ful candidates the following were elected twice: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monsoe, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, aud Cleveland. The following were nominated three times: Jefferson, who was defeated the first time; Jackson, also defeated the first time; John Q. Adams, defeated each time by the popular vote, but elected in 1824 as stated; Henry Clay, defeated every time. He was first nominated in 1824, then in 1832, and last in 1844; Martin Van Buren, elected the first time and defeated the two subsequent times; Grover Cleveland, who was elected the first and third times, but defeated the second time. The following died in office: William H. Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, and James A. Garfield, the last two named being a a inated. The highest electoral vote polled was by General Grant, in 1872, it being 286. The closest electoral vote was given to Hayes, 185: Tilden, 184. The largest majority of the electoral vote was obtained by Monroe in 1820; he received 231 and Adams 1. Polk was the first elected President that did not receive a majority of the popular vote; his vote was 1,337,243; the opposition, 1,361,368. Taylor did not have a majority of the popular vote, his vote being 1,360,101; the opposition, 1,511,807. Buchanan polled 1,838,169; his opponents, 2,215,- 708 vates Lincoln, when he was fir at elected, polled 1,866,352 votes; the other candidates, 2,810,501, but Lincoln carried the large State a by. small majorities, and, therefore, while his vote was nearly a million les a, his electoral vote was 180 to the opposition’s 123. "Yhe largest vote polled was at the last election. McKinley polled 7,107,304, and, singular to relate, Bryan polled more votes by nearly a million than any one who had been ever elected to the office. Bryan’s vote, although defeated, was 6,553,080, while the highest up to that election of elected candidates was the vote for Cleveland in 1892— 5,556,533. The following were Cabinet officers: Jefferson was Secretary of State under Washington; Madison was Secretary of State under Jefferson; Monroe under Madison; he was also Secretary of War under the same; John Q. Adams was Secretary of State under Monroe; Van Buren occupied the same office under Jackson; Buchanan also under Polk; Grant was Secretary of War for a sliort time under Johnson, until Stanton was reinstated. Only two of the Presidents signed the Declaration of Independence—John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. No naval officer has ever been a candidate for the office, while the army had a number of its officers elected. Webster, Clay, and Blaine were supposed to be invincible and were the idols of their followers. Tyler, Fill more, Johnson, and Arthur became Presidents because of the death of the then Presidents as noted. 126