1892 United States presidential election

The 1892 United States presidential election was the 27th presidential election in the United States. It happened on November 8, 1892. Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate and former President of the United States, won the election. He defeated the incumbent president, Benjamin Harrison, and the third-party candidate James B. Weaver, a former Congressman from Iowa, who ran as a member of the Populist Party.

 Candidates 

 Democratic Party 
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 Presidential 
 Grover Cleveland, 22nd President of the United States from New York (1885-1889) (Nominee)
 David B. Hill, U.S. senator from New York (1885-1889)
 Horace Boies, U.S. senator from Iowa (1890-1894)

 Vice-Presidential 
 Adlai E. Stevenson, former Congressman from Illinois (1875-1877; 1879-1881) (Vice-Presidential Nominee)
 Isaac P. Gray, 18th and 20th Governor of Indiana (1880-1881; 1885-1889)
 Allen B. Morse, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1885-1892)
 John L. Mitchell, Congressman from Wisconsin (1891-1893)

 Republican Party 
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 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States from Indiana (1889-1893) (Nominee)
 William McKinley, 39th Governor of Ohio (1892-1896) (Draft Effort)
 James G. Blaine, 31st United States Secretary of State from Maine (1881; 1889-1892) (1884 Nominee) (Draft Effort)
 John Sherman, U.S. senator of Ohio (1861-1877; 1881-1897) (Draft Effort)

 Populist Party 
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 James B. Weaver, former Congressman from Iowa (1879-1881; 1885-1889) (Nominee)
 James H. Kyle, U.S. senator of South Dakota (1891-1901)
 Leonidas L. Polk, former North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture (1877-1880) (Co-Founder of Populist Party) (Died on June 11, 1892)
 Walter Q. Gresham, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1891-1893)

References

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