Not really. He ran unopposed in 1789 and 1792 and chose not to run in 1796, so he never lost an election as an incumbent.
The United States requires 270 electoral votes for a candidate to win the presidency. Since there are a total of 538 votes available, a candidate can lose with 268 votes.
Washington stressed that the US would split itself apart and lose its sense of unity if everyone split off into political parties.
By offering a pardon to Richard Nixon.
Prohibition was badly enforced, eventually causing people to lose respect for the law.
To lose one's face means to lose one's presence of mind, to get angry or upset, to lose one' prestige or reputation.
John Quincy Adams was the first president to be denied reelection. He lost the election to Andrew Jackson. He then was elected to the House of Representatives.
Richard Nixon
1801.
George Washington became the first president
Harry Truman was the man.
Harry S. Truman did not lose his presidency in the traditional sense, as he completed his term. He served from April 12, 1945, to January 20, 1953. Truman chose not to run for re-election in 1952, and after his presidency, he was succeeded by Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Al Gore
Benjamin Harrison defeated an incumbent president, Grover Cleveland, only to lose to Cleveland in the next election. Harrison was America's 23rd President.
William Taft lost the 1912 presidential election to Woodrow Wilson. Taft, the incumbent president, faced a split in the Republican Party, with former president Theodore Roosevelt running as a third-party candidate for the Progressive Party. This division allowed Wilson, the Democratic candidate, to secure the presidency with a significant electoral victory.
Nixon lost to John Kennedy in 1960.
The United States requires 270 electoral votes for a candidate to win the presidency. Since there are a total of 538 votes available, a candidate can lose with 268 votes.
It was actually a race for the U.S. House of Representatives, and Mr. Obama lost to incumbent Rep. Bobby Rush.