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1844 - John Tyler was elected VP in 1840 to William Henry Harrison, when he died Tyler became President and ran a program favorable to the Democrats rather than the Whigs. The Whigs kicked him out of the party and in 1844 nominated Henry Clay. The Democrats didn’t trust Tyler either, so they nominated James Polk.

1848 - James Polk was not renominated by the Democratic Party, instead they nominated Lewis Cass, who lost to Zachary Taylor.

1852 - Millard Fillmore became the President upon the death of Zachary Taylor and when he signed the Compromise of 1850 became so unpopular that he was not renominated in 1852 by the Whigs. Instead they went with Winfield Scott who lost to the Democrat Franklin Pierce.

1856 - Franklin Pierce was not renominated by the Democrats in 1856, instead they chose Democratic party hack James Buchanan. He was such a non-entity that he was not renominated in 1860 on any of the parties that the Democrats had broken up into over slavery.

1868 - Andrew Johnson was not renominated by the Republicans, he was passed over for US Grant.

1880 - James Garfield won the nomination over the sitting President Rutherford B Hayes.

1884 - Chester A Arthur became President after Garfield was killed and James Blaine was nominated in his place.

1928 - Calvin Coolidge became President upon the death of Warren Harding and was replaced on the Republican ticket in 1928 by Herbert Hoover.

1952 - Harry Truman was replaced on the Democratic Ticket by Adlai Stevenson who lost to Ike.

1968 - Lyndon Johnson was replaced on the Democratic ticket of 1968 by Hubert Humphrey who lost to Richard Nixon.

The only reason LBJ didn’t run was because he was shellacked in the Vermont (?) primary by McCarthy.
Obama may need to experience the same rejection, considering all his life he’s been told how wonderful he is ...

Polk announced he wanted to serve only one term. As it was, he died soon after leaving office. Arthur was suffering from Bright's disease while in office and died less than two years after leaving the White House. Coolidge announced in 1927 that he did not choose to run for President in 1928--he died before Hoover's term was over. Truman and LBJ both took themselves out of the running. LBJ barely survived the end of the next Presidential term (by two days)--had he been in office the stresses of the job might have killed him sooner.

I believe LBJ won the New Hampshire primary--but his showing was surprisingly weak for an incumbent President against a longshot symbolic candidate (McCarthy) that he decided not to run for another term. Bobby Kennedy jumped into the race once it became clear that LBJ was vulnerable.