Quicksand Fans

Several people are known as having run for national office (President or Vice President) numerous times, but very few were really serious candidates. One, for example, was a candidate 9 times. But that person's name is not the answer here.

If we define a serious candidate as one who won at least once, what politician holds the record for running the most times? As a caveat, while I know of one correct answer to this I have not done the research to verify that there were no others.

Just to clarify one possible point of confusion. By "run" I mean the person was actually on the election day ballot. Having tried to get a nomination does not count.

I'm going to say it has to be Gus Hall or Harold Stassen.

Duncan Edwards wrote:I'm going to say it has to be Gus Hall or Harold Stassen.

Stassen is the one who ran 9 times. Hall ran four times. But neither ever won so is not the answer.

If we're talking about people who got the nomination and won only once then I guess that would be Richard Nixon?

The question is who ran the most times and won AT LEAST once. And it covers running for president And/or Vice President.

Duncan Edwards wrote:If we're talking about people who got the nomination and won only once then I guess that would be Richard Nixon?

Nixon was, I now realize, one of two correct answers. Nixon actually won four times (twice as President and twice as VP, and lost once running for President. There is another correct answer.

FDR ran 4 times, and once as veep
and Henry Clay a few but never won

MadMax359 wrote:FDR ran 4 times, and once as veep
and Henry Clay a few but never won

Yes, FDR is the other correcxt answer.

MadMax359 wrote:FDR ran 4 times, and once as veep
and Henry Clay a few but never won

Beat me to it.