Brian Kalt writes in again:
A friend, Jorge E. Souss, reminds me that Eisenhower and Nixon ran for
president as New Yorkers. Ike had been president of Columbia University,
and Nixon had set up a law practice in NY after deciding not to get
kicked around in California anymore. Neither had been elected to
anything from NY, but given how shallow Hillary Clinton’s roots in NY
are, it is probably fair to amend my earlier statement to read:
“2. The presidential New Yorkers all either served only a partial,
inherited term (Arthur, Fillmore); were defeated when running a second
time (TR 1912, Cleveland 1888, Van Buren 1840), died in office (FDR);
resigned from office (Nixon); or were bald (Eisenhower).”
Souss also points out that we have never gone more than 12 years
without a New Yorker on one of the major tickets, so that if Hillary
Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, and, I suppose, Michael Bloomberg fail to get on
a ticket, we will have set a new record (last one was Kemp in 1996).
1780s: Jay (1789), Clinton (1789)
1790s: Clinton (1792-96), Burr (1792-96), Jay (1796)
1800s: Burr (1800), Jay (1800), Clinton (1804-08), King (1804-08)
1810s: Clinton (1812), King (1816), Tompkins (1816)
1820s: Tompkins (1820), Sanford (1824), Van Buren (1824)
1830s: Van Buren (1832-36), Granger (1836)
1840s: Van Buren (1840), Fillmore (1848)
1850s: Fillmore (1856)
1860s: Seymour (1868)
1870s: Tilden (1876), Wheeler (1876) (plus Greeley (1872), but his EVs
were illegally excluded)
1880s: Arthur (1880), Cleveland (1884-88), Morton (1888)
1890s: Cleveland (1892), Reid (1892)
1900s: T. Roosevelt (1900-1904), Parker (1904), Sherman (1908)
1910s: T. Roosevelt (1912), Butler (1912), Hughes (1916)
1920s: F.D. Roosevelt (1920), Smith (1928)
1930s: F.D. Roosevelt (1932-36)
1940s: F.D. Roosevelt (1940-44), Willkie (1940), Dewey (1944-48)
1950s: Eisenhower (1952-56)
1960s: Miller (1964), Nixon (1968)
1970s: Nixon (1972)
1980s: Ferraro (1984)
1990s: Kemp (1996)
2000s: NONE THROUGH 2004






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