Presidential Election Archives

Descendants of Ulysses Grant, James Garfield and Grover Cleveland will speak in Caldwell in March

February 24, 2026 9:53 amFebruary 24, 2026 9:53 am

Descendants of three American Presidents will speak at a forum in Caldwell next month at a forum sponsored by the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Memorial Association to celebrate Grover Cleveland Birthday Week. An event will be held at the Grover Cleveland...

New Jerseyans As Presidential Candidates

February 16, 2026 12:20 amFebruary 15, 2026 8:38 pm

Chris Christie’s disastrous 2024 presidential campaign — his one-state strategy failed miserably — keeps Woodrow Wilson’s record intact as the last Garden Stater to win the presidency. Two New Jerseyans ran in 2020: U.S. Senator Cory Booker withdrew on January...

Key moment for Nixon was when 18 New Jersey Republicans bolted from Case

February 16, 2026 12:20 amFebruary 15, 2026 8:40 pm

For some time, presidential primaries in New Jersey were nothing more than beauty contests where the preferred candidate of a voter was deemed so unimportant that their name did not appear on the ballot. Instead, voters had to write in...

LBJ, Nixon swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 16, 2026 12:13 amFebruary 15, 2026 8:29 pm

Just 22,091 votes separated John F. Kennedy from Richard M. Nixon in the contest for New Jersey’s sixteen electoral votes in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy won 50% to Nixon’s 49%, but Nixon carried 14 of New Jersey’s 21 counties....

Wilson helped New Jersey Democrats sweep in 1912, then lost home state in 1916

February 16, 2026 12:11 amFebruary 15, 2026 8:18 pm

Democrat Woodrow Wilson remains the only New Jerseyan to win the presidency, but the former governor of New Jersey only carried New Jersey in one of his two White House bids. Wilson was elected in 1912, at the end of...

Grover Cleveland won New Jersey three times

February 16, 2026 12:10 amFebruary 15, 2026 8:18 pm

The only president born in New Jersey was Grover Cleveland, whose bid for the White House came after he had been elected mayor of Buffalo and governor of New York. Born in Caldwell, Cleveland remains the only Essex County native...

Lincoln lost New Jersey when he ran for re-election

February 16, 2026 12:09 amFebruary 15, 2026 8:19 pm

Abraham Lincoln lost New Jersey when he ran for re-election to a second term in 1864. New Jersey’s seven electoral votes went to George McClellan, a Civil War general and a resident of Orange, New Jersey. Electors for McClellan defeated...