1892 United States presidential election
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The 1892 United States presidential election was the 27th presidential election in the United States. It happened on November 8, 1892. Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate and former President of the United States, won the election. He defeated the incumbent president, Benjamin Harrison, and the third-party candidate James B. Weaver, a former Congressman from Iowa, who ran as a member of the Populist Party.
Candidates
Democratic Party
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| Grover Cleveland | Adlai Stevenson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 22nd President of the United States (1885–1889) |
First Assistant United States Postmaster General (1885–1889) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Presidential
- Grover Cleveland, 22nd President of the United States from New York (1885-1889) (Nominee)
- David B. Hill, U.S. senator from New York (1885-1889)
- Horace Boies, U.S. senator from Iowa (1890-1894)
Vice-Presidential
- Adlai E. Stevenson, former Congressman from Illinois (1875-1877; 1879-1881) (Vice-Presidential Nominee)
- Isaac P. Gray, 18th and 20th Governor of Indiana (1880-1881; 1885-1889)
- Allen B. Morse, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1885-1892)
- John L. Mitchell, Congressman from Wisconsin (1891-1893)
Republican Party
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| Benjamin Harrison | Whitelaw Reid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 23rd President of the United States (1889–1893) |
28th U.S. Ambassador to France (1889–1892) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Presidential
- Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States from Indiana (1889-1893) (Nominee)
- William McKinley, 39th Governor of Ohio (1892-1896) (1896 Nominee) (Became POTUS in 1897) (Draft Effort)
- James G. Blaine, 31st United States Secretary of State from Maine (1881; 1889-1892) (1884 Nominee) (Draft Effort)
- John Sherman, U.S. senator of Ohio (1861-1877; 1881-1897) (Draft Effort)
- Robert Todd Lincoln, 30th Minister to the United Kingdom (1889-1893) and 35th U.S. Secretary of War (1881-1885) (Son of 16th President Abraham Lincoln) (Draft effort)
Vice Presidential
- Whitelaw Reid, 28th U.S. Ambassador to France (1889–1892) (won via unanimous vote)
Populist Party
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| James B. Weaver | James G. Field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| U.S. Representative for IA-06 (1879–1881 & 1885–1889) |
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- James B. Weaver, former Congressman from Iowa (1879-1881; 1885-1889) (Nominee)
- James H. Kyle, U.S. senator of South Dakota (1891-1901)
- Leonidas L. Polk, former North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture (1877-1880) (Co-Founder of Populist Party) (Died on June 11, 1892)
- Walter Q. Gresham, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1891-1893)
References
- ↑ "National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present". United States Election Project. CQ Press.