1956 United States presidential election

The 1956 United States presidential election happened on November 6, 1956. President Dwight D. Eisenhower won reelection to a second term. He defeated former Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson in a rematch of the 1952 presidential election.  

Incumbent president Dwight D. Eisenhower won the election by 457 electoral votes. Adlai Stevenson got 73 electoral votes. Walter Burgwyn Jones got one vote by a faithless elector in Alabama.

This was the last election in which Alaska and Hawaii were not states. 

Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in September 1955 while in Colorado for a vacation. His doctors told him not to run for another election. However, Eisenhower announced his candidacy for re-election on television in early 1956.

 Candidates 

 Republican Party 
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Republican candidates
 Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States (1953-1961) from Pennsylvania (Nominee)
 John W. Bricker, U.S. Senator (1947-1959) and 1944 vice presidential nominee from Ohio
 William F. Knowland, U.S. senator from California (1947-1959)
 S. C. Arnold, Secretary of State of Montana (1955-1957) (Favorite son candidate)
 Joe Foss, Governor of South Dakota (1955-1959) (Favorite son candidate)

 Democratic Party 
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 References 

 Other websites 

Presidential election
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