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How about this:
=Endorsements by the New York Times since 1860=
'''From the ''New York Times'' of October 27, 2012; see the site at [http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/opinion/presidential-endorsement-timeline.html>]'''
 
Republican winner in <span style="color:red"> RED</span>
Democratic winner in <span style="color:blue"> BLUE</span>


==Endorsements by the New York Times since 1860==
'''From NYT, see link at</ref>'''
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#efefef"


!width="40"|'''Year'''
!width="30"|'''Year'''
!width="250"|'''Endorsed'''
!width="220"|'''Endorsed'''
!width="250"|'''Opponent(s)'''
!width="310"|'''Opponent(s)'''
!width="250"|'''Winner'''
!width="70"|'''Winner'''


|-
|-
| 1860 || [[Abraham Lincoln]], Republican || Bob Smith, Whig || Lincoln
| 1860 || [[Abraham Lincoln]],Republican || [[Stephen A. Douglas]], Democrat; [[John C. Brekinridge]], [[Southern Democrat]]; [[John Bell]], [[Constitutional Union Party]] ||<span style="color:red"> Lincoln</span>.
|-
|-
| 1864 || [[Abraham Lincoln]], Republican || Bob Smith, Whig || Lincoln
| 1864 || [[Abraham Lincoln]], Republican || [[George B. McClellan]], Democrat ||<span style="color:red"> Lincoln</span>
|-
|-
 
| 1868 || [[Ulysses S. Grant]], Republican || [[Horatio Seymour]], Democrat ||<span style="color:red"> Grant</span>
| 2 ||1/28/56 || '''7''' || 7 || '''What Am I Worth''', co-written by Jones
|-
|-
| 3 ||7/14/56 || '''7''' || 8 || '''You Gotta Be My Baby''', written by Jones
| 1872 || [[Ulysses S. Grant]], Republican || [[Horace Greeley]], Democrat ||<span style="color:red"> Grant</span>
|-
|-
| 4 ||10/20/56 || '''3''' (1) || 11 ||  '''Just One More''', written by Jones
| 1876 || [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], Republican || [[Samuel Tilden]], Democrat ||<span style="color:red"> Hayes</span>
|-
|-
| 5 |||| || 5 ||  '''Gonna Come Get You''' (''Juke Box'' flip side hit, apparently, of '''Just One More'''), written by Jones
| 1880 || [[James Garfield]], Republican || [[Winfield S. Hancock]], Democrat ||<span style="color:red"> Garfield</span>
|-
|-
| 6 ||1/26/57 || '''10''' || 1 || '''Yearning''' (with [[Jeanette Hicks]]), co-written by Jones
| 1884 || [[Grover Cleveland]], Democrat || [[James G. Blaine]], Republican ||<span style="color:navy"> Cleveland</span>
|-
|-
| 7 ||3/9/57 || '''10''' || 2 ||  '''Don't Stop The Music''', written by Jones
| 1888 || [[Grover Cleveland]], Democrat || [[Benjamin Harrison]], Republican ||<span style="color:navy">Harrison</span>
|-
|-
| 8 |||| || 1 ||  '''Uh, Uh, No''' (''Juke Box'' flip side hit, apparently, of '''Don't Stop The Music'''), written by Jones
| 1892 || [[Grover Cleveland]], Democrat || [[Benjamin Harrison]], Republican; [[James Weaver]], [[People's Party]] || <span style="color:navy">Cleveland</span>
|-
|-
| 9 ||6/10/57 || '''13''' || 6 || '''Too Much Water''', co-written by Jones
| 1896 || [[John M. Palmer]], [[National Democratic Party]] || [[William Jennings Bryan]], Democrat; [[William McKinley]], Republican || <span style="color:red">McKinley</span>
|-
|-
| 10 ||4/14/58 || '''7''' || 10 || '''Color of the Blues''', co-written by Jones
| 1900 || [[William McKinley]], Republican || [[William Jennings Bryan]], Democrat || <span style="color:red">McKinley</span>
|-
|-
| 11 ||11/17/58 || '''6''' || 16 || '''Treasure of Love''', co-written by Jones
| 1904 || [[Alton B. Parker]], Democrat || [[Theodore Roosevelt]], Republican || <span style="color:red"> Roosevelt</span>
|-
|-
| 12 ||12/8/58 || '''29''' || 1 || '''If I Don't Love You (Grits Ain't Groceries)''', flip side, apparently, of '''Treasure of Love''', co-written by Jones
| 1908 || [[William Howard Taft]], Republican || [[William Jennings Bryan]], Democrat || <span style="color:navy"><span style="color:red"> Taft</span>
|-
|-
| 13 ||3/9/59 || '''1''' (5) || 22 || '''White Lightning'''
| 1912 || [[Woodrow Wilson]], Democrat || [[William Howard Taft]], Republican; [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[Bull Moose Party]] || <span style="color:navy">Wilson</span>
|-
|-
| 14 ||7/20/59 || '''7''' || 13 || '''Who Shot Sam''', co-written by Jones
| 1916 || [[Woodrow Wilson]], Democrat || [[Charles Evans Hughes]], Republican || <span style="color:navy">Wilson</span>
|-
|-
| 15 ||11/23/59 || '''15''' || 12 || '''Money To Burn'''
| 1920 || [[James M. Cox]], Democrat || [[Warren G. Harding]], Republican || <span style="color:red"> Harding</span>
|-
|-
| 16 ||11/23/59 || '''19''' || 12 || '''Big Harlan Taylor''', flip side, apparently, of '''Money To Burn'''
 
|-
 
| 17 ||4/4/60 || '''16''' || 12 || '''Accidentally On Purpose''', co-written by Jones
| 1924 || [[John W. Davis]], Democrat || [[Warren G. Harding]], Republican; Robert M. LaFollette, [[Progressive]] ||<span style="color:red"> Harding</span>
|-
| 18 ||4/25/60 || '''30''' || 1 || '''Sparkling Brown Eyes''', flip side, apparently, of '''Accidentally On Purpose'''
|-
| 19 ||8/22/60 || '''25''' || 2 || '''Out Of Control''', co-written by Jones
|-
| 20 ||11/7/60 || '''2''' (1) || 34 || '''The Window Up Above''', written by Jones
|-
| 21 ||5/29/61 || '''16''' || 2 || '''Family Bible'''
|-
| 22 ||6/19/61 || '''1''' (7) || 32 || '''Tender Years'''
|-
| 23 ||9/18/61 || '''15''' (1) || 3 || '''Did I Ever Tell You''' (with [[Margie Singleton]])
|-
| 24 ||2/24/62 || '''5''' || 12 || '''Aching, Breaking Heart'''
|-
| 25 ||4/14/62 || '''1''' (6) || 23 || '''She Thinks I Still Care''' Grammy: Hall of Fame
|-
| 26 ||4/28/62 || '''17''' || 5 || '''Sometimes You Just Can't Win''', flip side, apparently, of '''She Thinks I Still Care'''
|-
| 27 ||6/16/62 || '''11''' || 10 || '''Waltz Of The Angels''' (with [[Margie Singleton]])
|-
| 28 ||7/21/62 || '''13''' || 11 || '''Open Pit Mine'''
|-
| 29 ||8/25/62 || '''28''' || 1 || '''You're Still On My Mind'''
|-
| 30 ||10/6/62 || '''3''' (4) || 18 || '''A Girl I Used To Know''' (''& The Jones Boys'')
|-
| 31 ||10/13/62 || '''13''' || 9 || '''Big Fool Of The Year''' (''& The Jones Boys''), flip side, apparently, of '''A Girl I Used To Know'''
|-
| 32 ||2/9/63 || '''7''' || 18 || '''Not What I Had In Mind''' (''& The Jones Boys'')
|-
| 33 ||4/6/63 || '''29''' || 1 || '''I Saw Me''' (''& The Jones Boys''), co-written by Jones
|-
| 34 ||5/4/63 || '''3''' (1) || 28 || '''We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds''' (with [[Melba Montgomery]])
|-
| 35 ||7/13/63 || '''5''' || 22 || '''You Comb Her Hair'''
|-
| 36 ||11/30/63 || '''20''' || 5 || '''What's In Our Heart''' (with [[Melba Montgomery]]), co-written by Jones
|-
| 37 ||12/7/63 || '''17''' || 7 || '''Let's Invite Them Over''' (with [[Melba Montgomery]]), flip side, apparently, of '''What's In Our Heart'''
|-
| 38 ||2/1/64 || '''5''' || 18 || '''Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was On The Right)'''
|-
| 39 ||2/8/64 || '''15''' || 9 || '''My Tears Are Overdue''', flip side, apparently, of '''Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was On The Right)'''
|-
| 40 ||3/28/64 || '''39''' || 3 || '''The Last Town I Painted'''
|-
| 41 ||6/6/64 || '''31''' || 7 || '''Something I Dreamed'''
|-
| 42 ||6/20/64 || '''10''' || 16 || '''Where Does A Little Tear Come From''', flip side, apparently, of '''Something I Dreamed'''
|-
| 43 ||9/5/64 || '''31''' || 5 || '''Please Be My Love''' (with [[Melba Montgomery]])
|-
| 44 ||9/26/64  || '''3''' (6)|| 28 || '''The Race Is On'''
|-
| 45 ||12/12/64 || '''25''' || 15 || '''Multiply The Heartaches''' (with [[Melba Montgomery]])
|-
| 46 ||1/30/65 || '''15''' || 15 || '''Least Of All'''
|-
| 47 ||3/13/65 || '''9''' || 21 || '''Things Have Gone To Pieces'''
|-
| 48 ||4/24/65 || '''16''' || 10 || '''I've Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night''' (''George & Gene'') (with [[Gene Pitney]])
|-
| 49 ||6/5/65 || '''14''' || 12 || '''Wrong Number''', co-written by Jones
|-
| 50 ||7/3/65 || '''25''' || 7 || '''Louisiana Man''' (''George & Gene'') (with [[Gene Pitney]])
|-
| 51 ||8/28/65 || '''6''' || 18 || '''Love Bug'''
|-
| 52 ||10/9/65 || '''40''' || 3 || '''What's Money''', co-written by Jones
|-
| 53 ||11/6/65 || '''8''' || 18 || '''Take Me''', co-written by Jones
|-
| 54 ||11/20/65 || '''50''' || 2 || '''Big Job''' (''George & Gene'') (with [[Gene Pitney]])
|-
| 55 ||3/12/66 || '''6''' || 17 || '''I'm A People'''
|-
| 56 ||3/12/66 || '''46''' || 3 || '''World's Worse Loser'''
|-
| 57 ||6/4/66 || '''47''' || 3 || '''That's All It Took''' (''George & Gene'') (with [[Gene Pitney]]), co-written by Jones
|-
| 58 ||6/25/66 || '''30''' || 7 || '''Old Brush Arbors'''
|-
| 59 ||7/30/66 || '''5''' || 16 || '''Four-O-Thirty-Three''', co-written by Jones
|-
| 60 ||11/19/66 || '''70''' || 3 || '''Close Together (As You And Me)'''  (with [[Melba Montgomery]])
|-
| 61 ||1/21/67 || '''1''' (2) || 22 || '''Walk Through This World With Me'''
|-
| 62 ||5/20/67 || '''5''' || 17 || '''I Can't Get There From Here'''
|-
| 63 ||9/9/67 || '''24''' || 10 || '''Party Pickin''''  (with [[Melba Montgomery]])
|-
| 64 ||10/7/67 || '''7''' || 18 || '''If My Heart Had Windows'''
|-
| 65 ||2/3/68 || '''8''' || 14 || '''Say It's Not You'''
|-
| 66 ||4/13/68 || '''35''' || 11 || '''Small Time Laboring Man''', co-written by Jones
|-
| 67 ||7/6/68 || '''3''' (1) || 13 || '''As Long As I Live'''
|-
| 68 ||9/28/68 || '''12''' || 12 || '''Milwaukee, Here I Come''' (With [[Brenda Carter]])
|-
| 69 ||11/23/68 || '''2''' (2) || 17 || '''When The Grass Grows Over Me''''
|-
| 70 ||3/29/69 || '''2''' (2) || 18 || '''I'll Share My World With You'''
|-
| 71 ||7/19/69 || '''6''' || 14 || '''If Not For You'''
|-
| 72 ||11/15/69 || '''6''' || 14 || '''She's Mine'''
|-
| 73 ||11/22/69 || '''72''' || 13 || '''No Blues Is Good News''', flip side, apparently, of '''She's Mine'''
|-
| 74 ||3/14/70 || '''28''' || 10 || '''Where Grass Won't Grow'''
|-
| 75 ||7/4/70 || '''13''' || 14 || '''Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong''' (''And The Jones Boys'')
|-
| 76 ||11/21/70 || '''2''' (1) || 1 || '''A Good Year For The Roses'''
|-
| 77 ||3/20/71 || '''10''' || 13 || '''Sometimes You Just Can't Win''', new version of his 1962 hit
|-
| 78 ||6/12/71 || '''7''' || 14 || '''Right Won't Touch A Hand'''
|-
| 79 ||10/2/71 || '''13''' || 12 || '''I'll Follow You (Up To Our Cloud)'''
|-
| 80 ||12/25/71 || '''9''' || 13 || '''Take Me''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]]), new version of his 1965 hit, co-written by Jones
|-
| 81 ||2/12/72 || '''6''' || 14 || '''We Can Make It'''
|-
| 82 ||2/12/72 || '''30''' || 8 || '''A Day In The Life Of A Fool'''
|-
| 83 ||5/20/72 || '''2''' (1) || 14 || '''Loving You Could Never Be Better'''
|-
| 84 ||7/8/72 || '''6''' || 15 || '''The Ceremony''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]])
|-
| 85 ||10/14/72 || '''46''' || 7 || '''Wrapped Around Her Finger''', co-written by Jones
|-
| 86 ||10/28/72 || '''5''' || 16 || '''A Picture Of Me (Without You)'''
|-
| 87 ||11/25/72 || '''38''' || 9 || '''Old Fashioned Singing''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]])
|-
| 88 ||3/3/73 || '''6''' || 14 || '''What My Woman Can't Do''', co-written by Jones
|-
| 89 ||4/7/73 || '''32''' || 9 || '''Let's Build A World Together''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]])
|-
| 90 ||6/23/73 || '''7''' || 13 || '''Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half As Bad As Losing You)'''
|-
| 91 ||9/1/73 || '''1''' (2) || 17 || '''We're Gonna Hold On''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]]), co-written by Jones
|-
| 92 ||11/24/73 || '''3''' (1) || 16 || '''Once You've Had The Best'''
|-
| 93 ||2/9/74 || '''15''' || 13 || '''(We're Not) The Jet Set''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]]) 
|-
| 94 ||4/6/74 || '''25''' || 12 || '''The Telephone Call''' (with stepdaughter Tina)
|-
| 95 ||6/8/74 || '''1''' (1) || 17 || '''The Grand Tour'''
|-
| 96 ||7/27/74 || '''8''' || 12 || '''We Loved It Away''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]]) 
|-
| 97 ||10/26/74 || '''1''' (1) || 13 || '''The Door'''
|-
| 98 ||3/22/75 || '''10''' || 14 || '''These Days (I Barely Get By)''', co-written by Jones
|-
| 99 ||5/17/75 || '''25''' || 13 || '''God's Gonna Get'cha (For That)''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]])
|-
| 100 ||7/26/75 || '''21''' || 11 || '''Memories Of Us'''
|-
| 101 ||11/1/75 || '''92''' || 4 || '''I Just Don't Give A Damn''', flip side, apparently, of '''Memories Of Us''',  co-written by Jones
|-
| 102 ||2/7/76 || '''16''' || 12 || '''The Battle''' 
|-
| 103 ||5/22/76 || '''37''' || 9 || '''You Always Look Your Best (Here In My Arms)'''
|-
| 104 ||6/5/76 || '''1''' (1) || 15 || '''Golden Ring''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]]) 
|-
| 105 ||9/4/76 || '''3''' (2) || 16 || '''Her Name Is''' 
|-
| 106 ||12/11/76 || '''1''' (2) || 16 || '''Near You''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]]) 
|-
| 107 ||5/21/77 || '''34''' || 8 || '''Old King Kong''' 
|-
| 108 ||7/16/77 || '''5''' || 13 || '''Southern California''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]]) 
|-
| 109 ||8/13/77 || '''24''' || 10 || '''If I Could Put Them All Together (I'd Have You)''' 
|-
| 110 ||1/7/78 || '''6''' || 14 || '''Bartender's Blues''' ([[James Taylor]] vocal harmony)
|-
| 111 ||7/1/78 || '''11''' || 13 || '''I'll Just Take It Out In Love''' 
|-
| 112 ||12/9/78 || '''7''' || 13 || '''Mabellene''' (with [[Johnny PayCheck]]) 
|-
| 113 ||5/26/79 || '''14''' || 11 || '''You Can Have Her''' (with [[Johnny PayCheck]])
|-
| 114 ||6/30/79 || '''22''' || 11 || '''Someday My Day Will Come''' 
|-
| 115 ||3/1/80 || '''2''' (1) || 14 || '''Two Story House''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]])
|-
| 116 ||4/12/80 || '''1''' (1) || 18 || '''[[He Stopped Loving Her Today]]'''
|-
| 117 ||6/2/80 || '''31''' || 9 || '''When You're Ugly Like Us (You Just Naturally Got To Be Cool)''' (with [[Johnny PayCheck]])
|-
| 118 ||8/23/80 || '''2''' (1) || 17 || '''I'm Not Ready Yet''' 
|-
| 119 ||9/6/80 || '''19''' || 11 || '''A Pair Of Old Sneakers''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]])
|-
| 120 ||12/13/80 || '''18''' || 12 || '''You Better Move On''' (with [[Johnny PayCheck]])
|-
| 121 ||1/17/81 || '''8''' || 15 || '''If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)'''
|-
| 122 ||10/3/81 || '''1''' (1) || 17 || '''Still Doin' Time'''
|-
| 123 ||2/6/82 || '''5''' || 19 || '''Same Ole Me''' ([[Oak Ridge Boys]] backing vocals)
|-
| 124 ||8/7/82 || '''1''' || 15 || '''Yesterday's Wine''' (with [[Merle Haggard]])
|-
| 125 ||12/4/82 || '''10''' || 19 || '''C. C. Waterback''' (with [[Merle Haggard]])
|-
| 126 ||1/15/83 || '''3''' (2) || 19 || '''Shine On (Shine All Your Sweet Love On Me)'''
|-
| 127 ||5/7/83 || '''1''' (1) || 18 || '''I Always Get Lucky With You'''
|-
| 128 ||9/10/83 || '''2''' (1) || 22 || '''Tennessee Whiskey'''
|-
| 129 ||12/17/83 || '''6''' || 18 || '''We Didn't See A Thing''' (with [[Ray Charles]] and [[Chet Atkins]])
|-
| 130 ||4/7/84 || '''3''' (2) || 19 || '''You've Still Got A Place In My Heart'''
|-
| 131 ||9/22/84 || '''2''' (3) || 23 || '''She's My Rock'''
|-
| 132 ||12/22/84 || '''15''' || 16 || '''Hallelujah, I Love You So''' (with [[Brenda Lee]])
|-
| 133 ||4/27/85 || '''19''' || 18 || '''Size Seven Round (Made Of Gold)''' (with [[Lacy J. Dalton]])
|-
| 134 ||8/3/85 || '''3''' (1) || 20 || '''[[Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?]]'''
|-
| 135 ||11/23/85 || '''3''' (2) || 22 || '''The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)'''
|-
| 136 ||4/19/86 || '''9''' || 21 || '''Somebody Wants Me Out Of The Way'''
|-
| 137 ||9/13/86 || '''10''' || 23 || '''Wine Colored Roses'''
|-
| 138 ||1/17/87 || '''8''' || 20 || '''The Right Left Hand'''
|-
| 139 ||5/16/87 || '''26''' || 18 || '''I Turn To You'''
|-
| 140 ||12/19/87 || '''26''' || 14 || '''The Bird'''
|-
| 141 ||2/26/88 || '''52''' || 10 || '''I'm A Survivor'''
|-
| 142 ||6/4/88 || '''63''' || 6 || '''The Old Man No One Loves'''
|-
| 143 ||9/3/88 || '''43''' || 10 || '''If I Could Bottle This Up''' (with [[Shelby Lynne]])
|-
| 144 ||12/17/88 || '''5''' || 20 || '''[[One Woman Man|I'm A One Woman Man]]'''
|-
| 145 ||4/29/89 || '''26''' || 13 || '''The King Is Gone (So Are You)'''
|-
| 146 ||7/29/89 || '''31''' || 16 || '''Writing On The Wall'''
|-
| 147 ||11/11/89 || '''62''' || 6 || '''Radio Lover'''
|-
| 148 ||9/8/90 || '''8''' || 20 || '''A Few Ole Country Boys''' (with [[Randy Travis]])
|-
| 149 ||8/31/91 || '''32''' || 20 || '''You Couldn't Get The Picture'''
|-
| 150 ||1/11/92 || '''55''' || 14 || '''She Loved A Lot In Her Time'''
|-
| 151 ||4/11/92 || '''60''' || 7 || '''Honky Tonk Myself To Death'''
|-
| 152 ||10/17/92 || '''34''' || 20 || '''I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair''' (with [[Vince Gill]], [[Mark Chesnutt]], [[Garth Brooks]], [[Travis Tritt]], [[Joe Diffie]], [[Alan Jackson]], [[Pam Tillis]], [[T. Graham Brown]], [[Patty Loveless]], and [[Clint Black]])
|-
| 153 ||3/20/93 || '''65''' || 6 || '''Wrong's What I Do Best'''
|-
| 154 ||11/13/93 || '''24''' || 20 || '''[[High-Tech Redneck]]'''
|-
| 155 ||3/12/94 || '''52''' || 10 || '''Never Bit A Bullet Like This''' (with [[Sammy Kershaw]])
|-
| 156 ||11/12/94 || '''56''' || 7 || '''A Good Year For The Roses''' (with [[Alan Jackson]])
|-
| 157 ||7/1/95 || '''69''' || 4 || '''One''' (with [[Tammy Wynette]])
|-
| 158 ||9/14/96 || '''66''' || 6 || '''Honky Tonk Song'''
|-
| 159 ||9/20/97 || '''14''' || 20 || '''You Don't Seem To Miss Me''' (with [[Patty Loveless]])
|-
| 160 ||5/08/99 || '''30''' || 20 || '''Choices'''
|-
| 161 ||11/6/99 || '''45''' || 20 || '''[[Cold Hard Truth|The Cold Hard Truth]]'''
|-
| 162 ||11/20/99 || '''30''' || 13 || '''A Country Boy Can Survive''' (Y2K Version) (with [[Hank Williams, Jr.]] and [[Chad Brock]])
|-
| 163 ||5/13/00 || '''55''' || 12 || '''Sinners And Saints'''
|-
| 164 ||8/4/01 || '''47''' || 9 || '''The Man He Was'''
|-
| 165 ||10/13/01 || '''24''' || 20 || '''Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?)''' (with [[Garth Brooks]])
|-
| 166 ||3/30/02 || '''55''' || 1 || '''50,000 Names'''
|-
| 167 ||4/23/05 || '''26''' || 23 || '''4th Of July''' (with [[Shooter Jennings]])
|-
|-
|}
|}
Wonderful, Derek, perfect!  Just what I was about to try to do in the next half-hour or so!  I'll add a couple of more in a moment, then transfer it all over to the main page.  Along with an explanation up at the top.  Many thanks! [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 21:37, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

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How about this:

Endorsements by the New York Times since 1860

From the New York Times of October 27, 2012; see the site at >

Republican winner in RED Democratic winner in BLUE

Year Endorsed Opponent(s) Winner
1860 Abraham Lincoln,Republican Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat; John C. Brekinridge, Southern Democrat; John Bell, Constitutional Union Party Lincoln.
1864 Abraham Lincoln, Republican George B. McClellan, Democrat Lincoln
1868 Ulysses S. Grant, Republican Horatio Seymour, Democrat Grant
1872 Ulysses S. Grant, Republican Horace Greeley, Democrat Grant
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes, Republican Samuel Tilden, Democrat Hayes
1880 James Garfield, Republican Winfield S. Hancock, Democrat Garfield
1884 Grover Cleveland, Democrat James G. Blaine, Republican Cleveland
1888 Grover Cleveland, Democrat Benjamin Harrison, Republican Harrison
1892 Grover Cleveland, Democrat Benjamin Harrison, Republican; James Weaver, People's Party Cleveland
1896 John M. Palmer, National Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan, Democrat; William McKinley, Republican McKinley
1900 William McKinley, Republican William Jennings Bryan, Democrat McKinley
1904 Alton B. Parker, Democrat Theodore Roosevelt, Republican Roosevelt
1908 William Howard Taft, Republican William Jennings Bryan, Democrat Taft
1912 Woodrow Wilson, Democrat William Howard Taft, Republican; Theodore Roosevelt, Bull Moose Party Wilson
1916 Woodrow Wilson, Democrat Charles Evans Hughes, Republican Wilson
1920 James M. Cox, Democrat Warren G. Harding, Republican Harding
1924 John W. Davis, Democrat Warren G. Harding, Republican; Robert M. LaFollette, Progressive Harding

Wonderful, Derek, perfect! Just what I was about to try to do in the next half-hour or so! I'll add a couple of more in a moment, then transfer it all over to the main page. Along with an explanation up at the top. Many thanks! Hayford Peirce 21:37, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

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