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The 1960 presidential election, which has been described as the “first modern presidential campaign,” pitted Republican Richard Nixon, who had served as Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower, against Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy, scion of the elite Kennedy clan of Massachusetts. 1 Kennedy ran on a strong civil rights platform, hoping to offset the expected hostility from ...
Two vice presidents—George Clinton and John C. Calhoun—served under more than one president. Ill with tuberculosis and recovering in Cuba on Inauguration Day in 1853, William R. King, by an Act of Congress, was allowed to take the oath outside the United States. He is the only vice president to take his oath of office in a foreign country.
John F. Kennedy, 1961. Kennedy had nearly become Stevenson’s vice presidential running mate in 1956. The charismatic young New Englander’s near victory and his televised speech of concession (Estes Kefauver won the vice presidential nomination) brought him into some 40 million American homes. Overnight he had become one of the best-known ...
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1960 election. After winning the Republican presidential nomination at the 1960 Republican National Convention, Vice President Richard Nixon needed to choose a running mate.
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979), sometimes referred to by his nickname Rocky, [1] was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. A member of the Republican Party and the wealthy Rockefeller family, he previously ...
Nov 8, 2011 · On Nov. 8, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency in one of the closest and most contentious elections in American history. Mr. Kennedy would end up defeating Mr. Nixon by just 0.1 percent in the popular vote, and the results of the election were still uncertain on Tuesday night.
May 6, 2020 · Republicans: Richard Nixon and Vice President Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Democrats: John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Platforms. Republicans: The Republicans planned to continue with Eisenhower's popularity and wanted to continue his policies. Nixon also argued that with the nation engaged in the Cold War with the Soviets, Kennedy ...