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He lost a reelection campaign in 1961 to Sam Yorty, partly due to having to explain the expenses incurred by the Dodgers ' franchise shift.
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In the May 2006 city election, incumbent mayor Larry Rogers, who also serves on JMU's Board of Visitors, lost his bid for reelection to a JMU graduate.
The economy was prosperous and the nation was at peace, but Cleveland lost reelection in the Electoral College, even though he won a plurality of the popular vote by a narrow margin.
In 1988 he lost his reelection bid for the French National Assembly in the Bouches-du-Rhône's 8th constituency.
Courtright lost support of the Fort Worth Democrat and consequently lost when he ran for reelection in 1879.
Although after 1860 he increasingly lost control of the Tribune ’ s operations, and wrote fewer editorials, in 1864 he expressed defeatism regarding Lincoln ’ s chances of reelection, an attitude that was echoed across the country when his editorials were reprinted.
Smith lost his bid for reelection in 1920, but was again elected governor in 1922, 1924 and 1926 with James A. Farley managing his campaign.
When Troup lost his reelection bid in 1828 Lamar established a newspaper in Columbus, Georgia, the Columbus Enquirer.
In November 1984, all the city council members up for election who had voted against the policy lost reelection.
He soundly lost his reelection bid in 1948 to another young Minnesotan, 37 year old Hubert Humphrey.
He opposed Grant's reelection by supporting the Liberal Republican candidate Horace Greeley in 1872 and lost his power inside the Republican party.
President Cleveland lost reelection to Benjamin Harrison in the 1888 election and Garland left office at the end of Cleveland's term in 1889.
Despite the reelection of incumbent Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, the inexperienced Mikan lost by a close margin of 52 % to 48 %.
However, in 2007 he lost in his bid for reelection and also lost in 2010 when he tried to run again as councilor.
Doyle topped Green 53 % to 45 % in a year in which no incumbent Democratic governor, senator, or congressman lost their reelection bid.
lost and campaign
Soon after assuming the throne, he conducted a campaign to reincorporate the Balearic Islands into the Kingdom of Aragon-which had been lost due to the division of the kingdom by his grandfather, James I of Aragon.
They reached the 1915 FA Cup Final, where they lost to Sheffield United at Old Trafford, and finished 3rd in the First Division in 1920, the club's best league campaign to that point.
Plans by Germany to invade the UK in 1940 failed after Germany lost the aerial warfare campaign in the Battle of Britain.
Hicks, who lost two teenage daughters in the disaster, went on to campaign for safer stadiums and helped to form the Hillsborough Families Support Group.
Such speculation increased after Labour lost the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, in which Peter Tatchell was its candidate, standing against a Tory, a Liberal ( eventual winner Simon Hughes ) and the right wing John O ' Grady, who had declared himself the " real " Labour candidate and fought an openly homophobic campaign against Tatchell.
Owain remained free but even though his campaign had been successful, and the English armies feared both him and the French — he had lost his ancestral home and was a hunted prince.
Having lost the revenue potential of Haiti while escalating his wars against the rest of Europe, Napoleon gave up on an empire in North America and used the purchase money to help finance France's war campaign on its home front.
During this campaign Poland re-annexed the Red Strongholds, later called Red Ruthenia, lost by Bolesław I's father in 981.
And, when Gerald Ford was defeated in the 1976 Presidential campaign, Anderson lost a key ally in Washington.
Anderson postponed his decision to run, lost his campaign manager, and struggled to raise money, but in late April 1979 he made the decision to enter the Republican primary anyway, joining a crowded field that included Robert Dole, John Connally, Howard Baker, George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.
The studio's candidate for Best Picture the previous year, Saving Private Ryan, lost to Shakespeare in Love, so the studio took a new approach by hiring outsiders to provide input for the campaign.
During that campaign, however, with the war in Europe intensifying, he was widely considered too young and inexperienced for the presidency and lost the nomination to Wendell Willkie, who strongly disliked him and considered endorsing Roosevelt against Dewey at the time of his death in 1944.
Catherine was appointed Regent from July to September 1544 while Henry was on a military campaign in France and in case he lost his life, she was to rule as Regent until Edward came of age.
Le Pen claimed that he had lost his left eye when he was savagely beaten during the 1958 election campaign.
Admiral Wilhelm Marschall reported Raeder as saying during the campaign in Norway: " It doesn't matters if a battleship is lost.
McMahon lost his nerve, and in the December 1972 election campaign, he was outperformed by Whitlam and subjected to further humiliation in the press.
However, this campaign was ultimately a failure due to a rival military officer of Shen disobeying direct orders, and the territory gained from the Western Xia was eventually lost.
On 3 November 1993, Arkan and his followers founded the Party of Serbian Unity, and he became its president, but the party lost parliamentary elections and failed to win seats despite an energetic promotional campaign.
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