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Historical Politicians I Like

Listed in somewhat chronological order

• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Paine
• Aaron Burr
• James Madison
• Elbridge Gerry
• James Monroe
• Daniel D. Tompkins
• Andrew Jackson
• Louis McLane
• Martin Van Buren
• Richard Mentor Johnson
• Thomas Hart Benton
• James G. Birney
• William Orlando Butler
• John P. Hale
• John Adams Dix
• William L. Dayton
• Hannibal Hamlin
• Benjamin Wade
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thaddeus Stevens
• Henry Wilson
• John Conness
• Benjamin Gratz Brown
• Peter Cooper
• Andrew Gregg Curtin
• Alexander Campbell
• John Marshall Harlan
• James B. Weaver
• William Mahone
• Alson Streeter
• Benjamin Harrison
• Henry M. Teller
• William Jennings Bryan
• Arthur Sewall
• Thomas Brackett Reed
• Eugene V. Debs
• Robert M. La Follette
• Albert B. Cummins
• William Randolph Hearst
• Alton B. Parker
• John Worth Kern
• Woodrow Wilson
• Thomas R. Marshall
• William C. Adamson
• Louis Brandeis
• William Bauchop Wilson
• Fiorello La Guardia
• James M. Cox
• Victor L. Berger
• Seymour Stedman
• Joseph Taylor Robinson
• Robert F. Wagner
• Frances Perkins
• Henry A. Wallace
• William O. Douglas
• Glen H. Taylor
• Claude Pepper
• Sam Rayburn
• Alben W. Barkley
• Adlai Stevenson II
• Estes Kefauver
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Stuart Symington
• Hubert Humphrey
• George McGovern
• Frank Church
• Mike Gravel

My Vote in Every American Election

• 1796: Thomas Jefferson (DR)
• 1800: Thomas Jefferson (DR)
• 1804: Thomas Jefferson (DR)
• 1808: James Madison (DR)
  • DR caucus: George Clinton
• 1812: James Madison (DR)
• 1816: James Monroe (DR)
  • DR caucus: James Monroe
• 1820: James Monroe (DR)
• 1824: Andrew Jackson (DR-J)
  • DR caucus: Andrew Jackson
• 1828: Andrew Jackson (D)
• 1832: Andrew Jackson (D)
• 1836: Martin Van Buren (D)
• 1840: Martin Van Buren (D)
  • Whig Convention: Winfield Scott
• 1844: James G. Birney (L)
  • Democratic Convention: Martin Van Buren
• 1848: Martin Van Buren (FS)
  • Whig Convention: John McLean
  • Democratic Convention: Levi Woodbury
• 1852: John P. Hale (FS)
  • Democratic Convention: James Buchanan
  • Whig Convention: Winfield Scott
• 1856: John C. Fremont (R)
  • Republican Convention: John McLean
  • Democratic Convention: Stephen A. Douglas
• 1860: Abraham Lincoln (R)
  • Republican Convention: Abraham Lincoln
  • Democratic Convention: Stephen A. Douglas
• 1864: Abraham Lincoln (NU)
  • Democratic Convention: George B. McClellan
• 1868: Ulysses S. Grant (R)
  • Democratic Convention: Winfield Scott Hancock
• 1872: Ulysses S. Grant (R)
  • Liberal Republican Convention: Lyman Trumbull
• 1876: Peter Cooper (G)
  • Democratic Convention: Winfield Scott Hancock
  • Republican Convention: Benjamin Bristow
• 1880: James B. Weaver (G)
  • Democratic Convention: Winfield Scott Hancock
  • Republican Convention: Ulysses S. Grant
• 1884: Benjamin Butler (G)
  • Democratic Convention: Grover Cleveland
  • Republican Convention: John Sherman
• 1888: Benjamin Harrison (R)
  • Republican Convention: John Sherman
• 1892: James B. Weaver (P)
  • Democratic Convention: Horace Boies
  • Republican Convention: William McKinley
• 1896: William Jennings Bryan / Thomas E. Watson (P)
  • Republican Convention: William McKinley
  • Democratic Convention: William Jennings Bryan
• 1900: William Jennings Bryan (D)
• 1904: Alton B. Parker (D)
  • Democratic Convention: William Randolph Hearst
• 1908: William Jennings Bryan (D)
  • Democratic Convention: William Jennings Bryan
  • Republican Convention: Robert M. La Follette
• 1912: Woodrow Wilson (D)
  • Democratic Convention: Woodrow Wilson
  • Republican Convention: Theodore Roosevelt
• 1916: Woodrow Wilson (D)
  • Republican Convention: Albert B. Cummins
• 1920: Eugene V. Debs (S)
  • Republican Convention: Leonard Wood
  • Democratic Convention: William Gibbs McAdoo
• 1924: Robert M. La Follette (P)
  • Democratic Convention: William Gibbs McAdoo
• 1928: Al Smith (D)
  • Democratic Convention: Cordell Hull
  • Republican Convention: Herbert Hoover
• 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
  • Democratic Convention: Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Republican Convention: John J. Blaine
• 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
  • Republican Convention: Alf Landon
• 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
  • Republican Convention: Wendell Willkie
  • Democratic Convention: Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)