The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket, businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state and First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton and the junior senator from Virginia, Tim Kaine, in what was considered one of the biggest political upsets in American history. It was also the sixth presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state; the others have been in 1860, 1904, 1920, 1940, and 1944.
Image: Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 3x 4
The incumbent in 2016, Barack Obama. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 2017.
Image: Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore (cropped)
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Michael Richard Pence is an American politician who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013.
Pence in Columbus North High School's 1977 yearbook
Pence as a U.S. Representative during the 111th Congress
Congressman Pence visits U.S. soldiers in Mosul, Iraq, in 2006.