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Elected President. John F. Kennedy. Democratic. The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy defeated the incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon.
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Of presidents since 1960, only Ronald Reagan and (in interim results) Barack Obama placed in the top ten; Obama was the highest-ranked president since Harry Truman (1945–1953). Most of the other recent presidents held middling positions, though George W. Bush placed in the bottom ten, the lowest-ranked president since Warren Harding (1921 ...
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Federal government
1. President: Dwight D. Eisenhower (R-Kansas/Pennsylvania) 2. Vice President: Richard Nixon (R-California) 3. Chief Justice: Earl Warren (California) 4. Speaker of the House of Representatives: Sam Rayburn (D-Texas) 5. Senate Majority Leader: Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) 6. Congress: 86th
January
1. January 2 – U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) announces his candidacy for the Democraticpresidential nomination. 2. January 19 – The Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan is signed in Washington, D.C. 3. January 23 – Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descend into the Mariana Trench in the bathyscaphe Trieste, reaching the depth of 10,916 meters. 4. January 25 – In Washington, D.C., the National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the payola scandal b...
February
1. February 1 – Greensboro sit-ins: In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the Southern United States, and six months later, the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counter. 2. February 9 2.1. Adolph Coors...
March
1. March 3 – Elvis Presleyreturns home from Germany to the United States, after being away on military duty for 2 years. 2. March 5 – Elvis Presleyreceives his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. 3. March 6 – Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam. 4. March 17 – Northwest Airlines Flight 710crashes near Tell City, Indiana, killing all 61 on board. 5. March 22 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent f...
January 1 – Michael Seibert, ice dancer and choreographerJanuary 4January 6 – Howie Long, American football playerJanuary 12 – Dominique Wilkins, French-born basketball playerJanuary–June
1. January 1 – Margaret Sullavan, film actress (b. 1909) 2. January 4 – Dudley Nichols, screenwriter (b. 1895) 3. January 10 – Arthur S. Carpender, admiral (b. 1884) 4. January 12 – William Adams Delano, architect (b. 1874) 5. January 16 – Rudulph Evans, sculptor (b. 1878) 6. January 24 6.1. John Miljan, film actor (b. 1892) 6.2. Matt Moore, Irish-American film actor (b. 1888) 7. January 25 – Diana Barrymore, stage & film actress (b. 1921) 8. January 28 – Zora Neale Hurston, African-American...
July–December
1. July 12 – Buddy Adler, film producer (b. 1906) 2. July 15 – Lawrence Tibbett, operatic baritone (b. 1896) 3. July 16 – John P. Marquand, novelist (b. 1893) 4. July 26 – Cedric Gibbons, Irish-American art director (b. 1893) 5. August 7 – Walden L. Ainsworth, admiral (b. 1886) 6. August 9 – Richard Cramer, actor (b. 1889) 7. August 10 – Frank Lloyd, film director (b. 1886) 8. August 14 – Fred Clarke, baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), member of MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1872) 9. August 23 – Os...
The 1960 American National Election Study was conducted from September through December of 1960. The study was designed to provide information about the political attitudes and behavior of a representative cross-section of United States voters. The study is the last wave of a 3-wave panel study of which the first two components are the 1956 and ...
1960. Party Nominees: Electoral Vote: Popular Vote Presidential: Vice Presidential ...
Apr 13, 2024 · US Presidents Study Historical Rankings. Since 1982, the SCRI Survey of U.S. Presidents has been conducted during the second year of the first term of a new president. Previous SCRI surveys of U.S. Presidents have been reported in Presidential Studies Quarterly, The New York Times, Washington Post, recent scholarly reviews of the presidents ...
Results of the presidential election of 1960, won by John F. Kennedy with 303 electoral votes.
