3. Grover Cleveland (1888)
The US presidential election of 1888 was the 26th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1888.
Grover Cleveland was the incumbent president and a Democrat, and he was trying to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. Senator from Indiana.
Cleveland lost re-election in the Electoral College, even though he won a plurality of the popular vote by a narrow margin. Cleveland had 5,443,892 votes, while Harrison had 5,534,488, but Harrison carried 20 states (electoral colleges), while Cleveland carried 18.
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