has a sitting president ever failed to receive nomination
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: The only elected president to lose re-nomination was Franklin Pierce in 1856. Chester A. Arthur, who succeeded to the presidency upon the assassination of James A. Garfield on September 20, 1881, failed to win the 1884 Republican Presidential nomination for a full term of his own. He left office on March 3, 1885 and died of Bright's Disease (a kidney ailment) on November 18, 1886 at the age of 57.