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Democratic Party (United States) presidential nominees

  • Hillary ClintonAround 1961, a girl from the Chicago suburbs wrote a letter to NASA. Hillary Rodham, later known as Hillary Clinton, wanted to know what she could do to become an astronaut. The reply was blunt. Women were not being accepted into the…
  • Barack ObamaObama rejected a plan to bomb a compound in Pakistan and sent Navy SEALs instead. The 2011 raid killed Osama bin Laden.
  • Kamala HarrisKamala Harris raised 81 million dollars in small-dollar donations during the first 24 hours of her 2024 presidential campaign, the highest single-day total of any presidential candidate in history. The race that followed lasted only 107…
  • Al GoreAl Gore won the 2000 popular vote but lost the presidency by 537 Florida votes.
  • Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson was slashed with a sword as a boy for refusing to polish a British officer's boots.
  • Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson took the presidential oath from a woman, a first for any American president.
  • Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson ordered his own supporters to vote against his League of Nations treaty.
  • Harry S. TrumanHarry Truman became president knowing nothing about the atomic bomb. He had been vice president for only 82 days.
  • Horace GreeleyHorace Greeley could not breathe for the first twenty minutes of his life. He later founded the New-York Tribune.
  • George B. McClellanGeneral McClellan wrote that he might have made himself Dictator if he had wanted to.
  • John C. BreckinridgeVice President John C. Breckinridge announced Lincoln's 1860 win, a race he had lost. The Senate later expelled him.

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