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Which was the only presidential election where a major party nominated a Supreme Court justice?
a. 1888
b. 1912
c. 1948
d. 1916

The only time a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court won the presidential nomination of a major party was in 1916, when Charles Evans Hughes won the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent Woodrow Wilson (D). Since nominating conventions were adopted in the 1832 election, major parties have nominated 21 candidates who most recently served as a state governor, 15 who most recently served in the U.S. Senate, six who most recently served in the U.S. House, 27 who most recently served as president, and eight who most recently served as vice president. There have also been five candidates who most recently served on the U.S. Cabinet, four who most recently served as an ambassador, one who most recently served on a state court, and seven with no prior political experience.

Of the 21 candidates who most recently served as governors, 10 (48%) won election as president. The state with the most governors who won a presidential nomination was New York; seven presidential elections have featured a governor of New York on the ballot. The only New York governors to win election as president were Grover Cleveland (D) in 1884 and Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) in 1932.

Of the 21 candidates who had most recently served in Congress (15 in the Senate and six in the House), seven (33%) won election as president. The success rate is the same for members of both chambers; five out of 15 senators (33%) and two out of six representatives (33%) were successful in presidential races.

The only presidential election besides 1916 to feature a judicial nominee was 1904. That year, New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alton Parker won the Democratic nomination to challenge incumbent Theodore Roosevelt (R).[1]

  1. ↑ Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, "United States Presidential Election Results," accessed July 8, 2019
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