U.S. President History
1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.
1888 - Benjamin Harrison was elected president of the United States. Harrison won on electoral votes and lost in the popular vote.
1900 - U.S. President McKinley was re-elected when he beat William Jennings Bryan for the presidency.
1928 - For the first time, presidential election results were flashed on an electronic sign outside the New York Times building. Herbert Hoover had beaten Alfred E. Smith.
1956 - U.S. President Eisenhower was re-elected. He had beat Adlai E. Stevenson for the presidency.
1997 - Former President George Bush opened his presidential library at Texas A&M University.
| "You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle." - Bill Clinton |