Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 6, 1888. Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. senator from Indiana, defeated incumbent Democratic President Grover Clev
Benjamin Harrison
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Man leaning on Harrison and Morton campaign ball.
Grover Cleveland, the incumbent president in 1888, whose first non-consecutive term expired on March 4, 1889
Allen G. Thurman
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Allen Granberry Thurman was an American politician who served as a United States representative, Ohio Supreme Court justice, and United States senator. A Democrat, he unsuccessfully ran for vice presi
1888 United States presidential election
…again with Cleveland in 1884. Hendricks served as vice-president for only eight months before he died in office on November 25, 1885. Former Senator Allen G. Thurman from Ohio was nominated for vice-president over Isaac P. Gray, his nearest rival, and John C. Black, who trailed behind. Gray lost the nomination to…
Thurman, 1865–1880
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Allen Granberry Thurman from an 1888 poster.
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