To: Mo1
Has a sitting President ever lost to a Senator?
Wasn't the popular Andrew Jackson a senator when he unseated the never-popular John Quincy Adams in 1828? I can think of no one else who might fit the bill here.
1,885 posted on
01/19/2004 7:23:22 PM PST by
Theodore R.
(When will they ever learn?)
To: Theodore R.
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To: Theodore R.
Yes, he was a sitting Senator, but he was appointed to the Senate for the sole purpose of bolstering his Presidential run. Also, he had prior executive branch experience (which my query originally had as a restriction- a sitting Senator without Gubernatorial experience).
Even if we give it to Jackson, it is very, very rare, and has not happened in modern times.
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