The Election of 1956

A detailed Summary of The Election of 1956

The election of 1956, 48 states were in the union at that time and

Dwight Eisenhower was president. Even though Eisenhower had

not made and major changes during his first term he was still the

publics for choice for the next election. In a poll taken in 1954,

65% of Americans had approved of the job he was doing. Some

critics reflected his as lazy. Saying he rather be golfing, one of his

own speech writers once described his as an "oaf". But never the

less he was unanimously nominated for the Republican ticket in

1956 along with Richard Nixon for vice president, who won with

457 electoral votes and 57.6% of the popular vote. For the

Democrats Adlai E. Stevensons was anomously nominated and

excepted the nomination. This campaign was won of the calmest

in American history, for the same candidates ran in the election of

1952. Not many people thought the democrats even had a

chance against Eisenhower. at a picnic at Eisenhowers' farm in

Gettysburg, where he officially began his campaign, He addressed

supported Eisenhower as a man and Stevenson as the democratic

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