1892 United States presidential election
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.
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 Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Harrison/Reid, blue denotes those won by Cleveland/Stevenson, green denotes Wisconsin, the state won by Weaver/Field Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Candidates:
Republican Party:
Presidential:
- Grover Cleveland, 22nd President of the United States from New York (1885-1889; 1893-1897)
- David B. Hill, Senator of New York (1885-1889; 1893-1897)
- Horace Boies, Governor of Iowa (1890-1894)
Vice-Presidential:
- Adlai E. Stevenson, former Congressman from Illinois (1875-1877; 1879-1881) (Vice-Presidential Nominee)
- Isaac P. Gray, former 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)
Democratic Party:
Populist Party:
- James B. Weaver, former Congressman from Iowa (1879-1881; 1885-1889) (Nominee)
- James H. Kyle, 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)
1892 United States Presidential Election Media
Democratic Party (United States)
Hon. Grover Cleveland, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right.
U.S. Vice President Adlai Stevenson (1893-1897).
1892 Democratic Poster showing the Cleveland-Stevenson ticket.
Republican Party (United States)
Benjamin Harrison, former President of the United States.
1892 Republican platform and presidential nominees.
Portrait of James B. Weaver, 1892
James Gaven Field (1826–1901), Attorney General of Virginia and Populist nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1892.
References
- ↑ "National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present". United States Election Project. CQ Press.