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Galileo Galilei
09-10-2011, 07:24 AM
so did Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, and Richard Nixon!
MJU1983
09-10-2011, 07:31 AM
Ronald Reagan.

If we just want to list "winners" - Henry Clay and Williams Jennings Bryan were never President.
kylejack
09-10-2011, 07:33 AM
Don't forget about the guy who ran in 1976, 1980, and 1984. ;)
Galileo Galilei
09-10-2011, 07:34 AM
Ronald Reagan.

If we just want to list "winners" - Henry Clay and Williams Jennings Bryan were never President.

but they are well-respected Americans.
MJU1983
09-10-2011, 07:36 AM
but they are well-respected Americans.

Oh for sure. :)
james1906
09-10-2011, 09:56 AM
so did Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, and Richard Nixon!

None of them are quixotic fringe quirky kooks.
Rael
09-10-2011, 03:57 PM
You can't really count running for a second term. How many ran three times before winning their first term?
Galileo Galilei
09-10-2011, 04:04 PM
You can't really count running for a second term. How many ran three times before winning their first term?

you can, if the media accusation is that Ron Paul has run three times.
specsaregood
09-10-2011, 04:12 PM
Don't forget about the guy who ran in 1976, 1980, and 1984. ;)
1968

You can't really count running for a second term. How many ran three times before winning their first term?
nope, but you can count:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)_presidential_prim aries,_1968
Aratus
09-10-2011, 06:19 PM
FDR ran four times and served only slightly more than 12 years.
has anyone else ran four times with greater than 1 in 10 odds
of winning each time? is FDR unique in american history? if one
looks at 1968, LBJ may be a near three timer in that he ran in
1960 and 1964 before deciding to not go the distance in 1968.