Stats: Losing U.S. Presidential Candidates by Prior Offices

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Political Party	Prior Offices	Presidential Candidate	% Correct
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from TN-4, TN-6; U.S. Senator from Tennessee; Vice President	Al Gore	96%
Democratic	First Lady of Arkansas; First Lady of the United States; U.S. Senator from New York; Secretary of State	Hillary Clinton	96%
Democratic	Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts	John Kerry	96%
Republican	Member of the U.S. House from AZ-1; U.S. Senator from Arizona	John McCain	96%
Republican	Governor of Massachusetts	Mitt Romney	96%
Republican	Member of the U.S. House from CA-12; U.S. Senator from California; Vice President	Richard Nixon	96%
Republican	U.S. Senator from Arizona	Barry Goldwater	92%
Republican	Member of the Kansas House of Representatives; County Attorney of Russell County; Member of the U.S. House from KS-6, KS-1; U.S. Senator from Kansas and Senate Majority Leader and Chair of the RNC	Bob Dole	92%
Republican	Member of the U.S. House from TX-7; Ambassador to the United Nations; Chair of the RNC; Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to China; Director of Central Intelligence; Vice President; President	George H.W. Bush	92%
Democratic	Member of the Georgia State Senate; Governor of Georgia; President	Jimmy Carter	92%
None	None (Founder and CEO of Electronic Data Systems)	Ross Perot	92%
Democratic	Attorney General of Minnesota; U.S. Senator from Minnesota; Vice President	Walter Mondale	92%
Republican	Member of the U.S. House from MI-5 and House Minority Leader; Vice President; President	Gerald Ford	88%
Democratic	Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; Governor of Massachusetts	Michael Dukakis	88%
Republican	Director of the U.S. Food Administration; Secretary of Commerce; President	Herbert Hoover	85%
Democratic	Mayor of Minneapolis; U.S. Senator from Minnesota; Vice President	Hubert Humphrey	85%
Federalist	Delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts; Envoy to France; Minister to the Netherlands; Minister to the United Kingdom; Vice President; President	John Adams	85%
Progressive	Member of the New York State Assembly; President of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Governor of New York; Vice President; President	Theodore Roosevelt	85%
Democratic-Republican	Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia; Governor of Virginia; Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation; Minister Plenipotentiary; Minister to France; Secretary of State	Thomas Jefferson	85%
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from SD-1; Director of Food for Peace; U.S. Senator from South Dakota	George McGovern	81%
American Independent	Governor of Alabama; First Gentleman of Alabama	George Wallace	81%
Republican	U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York; District Attorney of New York County; Governor of New York	Thomas Dewey	73%
Republican	U.S. Solicitor General; Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; Governor-General of the Philippines; Provisional Governor of Cuba; Secretary of War; President	William Howard Taft	73%
Democratic	Governor of Illinois	Adlai Stevenson	69%
Republican	Governor of Kansas	Alf Landon	69%
Democratic	Member of the New York Assembly; Sheriff of New York County; President of the New York City Board of Alderman; Governor of New York	Al Smith	69%
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from TN-at-large; Justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court; Territorial Governor of Florida; U.S. Senator from Tennessee	Andrew Jackson	69%
Federalist	Minister to France	Charles Pinckney	69%
Democratic	4th Commanding General of the U.S. Army	George McClellan	69%
Democratic	Sheriff of Erie County; Mayor of Buffalo; Governor of New York; President	Grover Cleveland	69%
Democratic-Republican; National Republican; Whig	Member of the U.S. House from KY-5, KY-2, KY-3 and Speaker of the House; Senator from Kentucky; Secretary of State	Henry Clay	69%
National Republican	Member of the Massachusetts Senate; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Secretary of State; President	John Quincy Adams	69%
Republican	None (Commonwealth & Southern Executive)	Wendell Willkie	69%
Federalist	U.S. Senator from New York; Mayor of New York City; Lieutenant Governor of New York	Dewitt Clinton	65%
Republican	Member of the U.S. House from ME-3 and Speaker of the House; U.S. Senator from Maine; Secretary of State	James Blaine	65%
Progressive	Member of the U.S. House from WI-3; Governor of Wisconsin; U.S. Senator from Wisconsin	Robert La Follette, Sr.	65%
Federalist	U.S. Senator from New York; Minister to the United Kingdom	Rufus King	65%
Democratic	Secretary of State of Illinois; Associate Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court; Member of the U.S. House from IL-5; U.S. Senator from Illinois	Stephen Douglas	65%
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from NE-1	William Jennings Bryan	65%
Republican	U.S. Senator from Indiana; President	Benjamin Harrison	62%
Republican	Governor of New York; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	Charles Evans Hughes	62%
Liberal Republican + Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from NY-6	Horace Greeley	62%
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from OH-3; Governor of Ohio	James Cox	62%
Constitutional Union	Member of the Tennessee Senate; Member of the U.S. House from TN-7 and Speaker of the House; Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives; Secretary of War; U.S. Senator from Tennessee	John Bell	62%
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from KY-8; Vice President	John Breckinridge	62%
Democratic	Member of the U.S. House from WV-1; Solicitor General; Ambassador to the United Kingdom	John Davis	62%
Republican	Military Governor of California; U.S. Senator from California	John Fremont	62%
Democratic; Free Soil	Surrogate of Columbia County; Member of the New York Senate; Attorney General of New York; U.S. Senator from New York; Governor of New York; Secretary of State; Minister to the United Kingdom; Vice President; President	Martin Van Buren	62%
American (Know Nothing)	Comptroller of New York; Member of the U.S. House from NY-32 and Chair of the Ways and Means Committee; Vice President; President	Millard Fillmore	62%
Democratic	Corporation Counsel of New York City; Member of the New York State Assembly from New York County; Governor of New York	Samuel Tilden	62%
Whig	Secretary of the Northwest Territory; Delegate to the U.S. House from the Northwest Territory; Governor of the Indiana Territory; Member of the U.S. House from OH-1; Member of the Ohio Senate; U.S. Senator from Ohio; Minister to Gran Colombia	William Henry Harrison	62%
Democratic	Major General in the U.S. Army	Winfield Hancock	62%
Whig	3rd Commanding General of the U.S. Army	Winfield Scott	62%
Democratic	Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals	Alton B. Parker	58%
Democratic	Mayor of Utica; Member of the New York State Assembly from Oneida County and Speaker of the New York State Assembly; Governor of New York	Horatio Seymour	58%
Democratic	Governor of the Michigan Territory; Secretary of War; Ambassador to France; U.S. Senator from Michigan	Lewis Cass	58%
Democratic-Republican	U.S. Senator from Georgia and president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate; Minister to France; Secretary of War; Secretary of the Treasury	William Crawford	58%

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