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unusual facts about presidential elector



Archibald Austin

Afterwards, he resumed practicing law and was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1832 and 1836.

Charles E. Dudley

Dudley was a presidential elector in election of 1816 and voted for James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins.

Clarence Lexow

In 1896, he was chairman of the committee on resolutions at the Republican State convention and introduced the gold standard plank in the platform; in 1900, he was a presidential elector, voting for William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

David B. Culberson

Culberson attended the Democratic state convention in 1868 and served as a presidential elector in the Presidential Election of 1872 pledged to Horace Greeley (who died before Texas' electoral votes could be cast) but casting his ballot ultimately for Benjamin Gratz Brown.

Edwin R. Reynolds

He was a presidential elector in 1869 and cast his ballot for Ulysses S. Grant.

John J. Daley

Daley was also a candidate for presidential elector during the 1972 presidential election (Vermont was carried by Republican incumbent President Richard Nixon).

John Rugee

He was also a Presidential Elector for the 1884 United States Presidential Election.

Jonette Engan

She was a member of the Minnesota DFL’s central and executive committees, and was selected as a presidential elector for the 1992 presidential election in which Bill Clinton defeated George H. Bush and Ross Perot.

Josiah Bartlett Jr.

Bartlett was a Presidential Elector in the 1792 election, supporting George Washington.

Martin Butterfield

He was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848 and was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1861; he was chairman of the Committee on Agriculture.

William H. Hudnut III

Hudnut was a presidential elector in the 1980 Presidential election.


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Albert Hobbs

In 1884, he ran for presidential elector on the Republican ticket (pledged to James G. Blaine), but New York was carried by Democrat Grover Cleveland.

Charles Brantley Aycock

His political career began in 1888 as a presidential elector for Grover Cleveland, when he gained distinction as an orator and political debater.

Fredrick McGhee

He was chosen to be a presidential elector by the Minnesota Republican party in the spring of 1892, but after protests by white Republicans, he was replaced before the start of the 1892 Republican National Convention, which was held in Minneapolis in June.

George Lawrence Record

Republican candidate for the New Jersey Senate, 1901; Republican candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, 1908; Republican candidate for U.S. Representative from New Jersey, 1910; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1912; Presidential Elector for New Jersey, 1916; candidate for U.S. Senator from New Jersey, 1918 (Republican primary), 1924 (Progressive).

Henry Washington Hilliard

He served as member of the state house of representatives 1836-1838, as member of the Whig National Convention at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1839, Whig presidential elector in 1840 and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Twenty-seventh Congress in 1840.

Keith Hall

Keith A. Hall, former Insight Communications executive and presidential elector in the 2004 United States presidential election

William Steger

Steger was also a Republican presidential elector in 1964, but the Johnson-Humphrey slate easily won Texas that year.