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<blockquote data-quote="Rod Snell" data-source="post: 2926085" data-attributes="member: 796"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In 1824 Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but got less than 50 percent of the electoral votes. John Quincy Adams became the next president when he was picked by the House of Representatives.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In 1876 Samuel Tilden won the popular vote but lost the election when Rutherford B. Hayes got 185 electoral votes to Tilden’s 184.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In 1888 Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost the election when Benjamin Harrison got 233 electoral votes to Cleveland’s 168.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In 2000 Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election to George Bush. In the most highly contested election in modern history, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount of ballots, giving Bush the state’s 25 electoral votes for a total of 271 to Gore’s 255.</li> </ul><p></p><p><a href="http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/grover-cleveland" target="_blank"><u>Grover Cleveland</u></a> was elected president (1884) then lost his re-election campaign (1888) and came back again to win the presidency for a second time. (1892)</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/barack-obama" target="_blank"><u>Barack Obama</u></a> is the nation’s 44rd president but in reality there have only been 43 presidents. Grover Cleveland is counted twice as our 22nd and 24th president because he was elected for two nonconsecutive terms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod Snell, post: 2926085, member: 796"] [LIST] [*]In 1824 Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but got less than 50 percent of the electoral votes. John Quincy Adams became the next president when he was picked by the House of Representatives. [*]In 1876 Samuel Tilden won the popular vote but lost the election when Rutherford B. Hayes got 185 electoral votes to Tilden’s 184. [*]In 1888 Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost the election when Benjamin Harrison got 233 electoral votes to Cleveland’s 168. [*]In 2000 Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election to George Bush. In the most highly contested election in modern history, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount of ballots, giving Bush the state’s 25 electoral votes for a total of 271 to Gore’s 255. [/LIST] [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/grover-cleveland'][U]Grover Cleveland[/U][/URL] was elected president (1884) then lost his re-election campaign (1888) and came back again to win the presidency for a second time. (1892) [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/barack-obama'][U]Barack Obama[/U][/URL] is the nation’s 44rd president but in reality there have only been 43 presidents. Grover Cleveland is counted twice as our 22nd and 24th president because he was elected for two nonconsecutive terms. [/QUOTE]
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