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George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American historian and South Dakota politician who was a U.S. representative and three-term U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.
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Mar 25, 2024 · Democratic Party. George McGovern (born July 19, 1922, Avon, South Dakota, U.S.—died October 21, 2012, Sioux Falls, South Dakota) was an American politician who was an unsuccessful reformist Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1972. He campaigned on a platform advocating an immediate end to the Vietnam War and for a broad program ...
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George McGovern for President; Campaign: 1972 Democratic primaries 1972 U.S. presidential election: Candidate: George McGovern U.S. Senator from South Dakota (1963–1981) Sargent Shriver U.S. Ambassador to France (1968–1970) Affiliation: Democratic Party: Status: Announced: January 18, 1971 Official nominee: July 13, 1972 Lost election ...
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- Announced: January 18, 1971, Official nominee: July 13, 1972, Lost election: November 7, 1972
United States presidential election of 1972, American presidential election held on November 7, 1972, in which Republican Pres. Richard Nixon was elected to a second term, defeating Democrat George McGovern in one of the largest landslides in U.S. history. Primary campaign. The Democratic campaign.
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Oct 21, 2012 · Obituary. George McGovern obituary. Democratic US presidential candidate who lost to Richard Nixon. Harold Jackson. Sun 21 Oct 2012 08.21 EDT. In the long roll-call of characters involved in...
Oct 21, 2012 · Oct. 21, 2012. George McGovern, the United States senator who won the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1972 as an opponent of the war in Vietnam and a champion of liberal causes,...
Oct 21, 2012 · By M. Alex Johnson, NBC News. Updated at 12:36 p.m. ET: George McGovern, the unabashedly liberal Democratic senator whose outsider campaign against President Richard Nixon led to a landslide ...
