When advised of his nomination, Polk replied: " It has been well observed that the office of President of the United States should neither be sought nor declined.

Former Reagan Administration official and Christian activist Alan Keyes had actively sought the Constitution nod after ending a bid for the GOP nomination.

Bush won the presidency, and his Vice President, Dan Quayle, briefly sought the Republican nomination in 2000.

Harding sought the 1909 gubernatorial nomination of the GOP, which was deeply divided between progressive and conservative wings of the party, but could not defeat the united Democrats ; he lost the election to incumbent Judson Harmon.

In the 1944 presidential election Willkie again sought the Republican nomination, choosing his wife's hometown, Rushville, Indiana, as his campaign headquarters.

He later ran for mayor and governor and even sought the presidential nomination, but lost much of his personal prestige when outrage exploded in 1901 after columnist Ambrose Bierce and editor Arthur Brisbane published separate columns months apart that suggested the assassination of William McKinley.

They went away apologetically, not having known Bryan sought the nomination.

The Republican Party nominated John C. Frémont of California as its first presidential candidate ; Senator William H. Seward sought, but failed to receive the Republican nomination.

While President Hayes did not seek renomination, former President Ulysses S. Grant ( 1869 – 1877 ) openly sought nomination to a third term.

Although he had not actively sought the nomination, Hughes made it known that he would not turn it down ; he won the nomination on the third ballot.

Although many candidates sought the Republican nomination, only two, Governor Landon and Senator Borah, were considered to be serious candidates.

Several other candidates sought support in their home state or region as " favorite son " candidates without any realistic chance of winning the nomination.

The request was granted and the Synod of Tarragona confirmed the nomination of Irenaeus, after which the bishops sought the pope's approval.

Dewey sought the 1940 Republican presidential nomination.

He sought the Democratic nomination for a seat in the U. S. Senate in 1962 but lost to incumbent Olin D. Johnston.

Hollings unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the presidential election of 1984.

He sought the Democratic presidential nomination for a third time in the election of 1960, but was defeated by Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.

Ulysses S. Grant sought a third term in 1880 after serving from 1869 to 1877, but narrowly lost his party's nomination to James Garfield.

Seward did not seriously compete for the presidential nomination ( won by John C. Frémont ) in 1856, but sought and was expected to receive the nomination in 1860.

He briefly and futilely sought his party's nomination for president in 1844.

Prior to the 1888 Republican National Convention, federal judge Walter Q. Gresham sought Fairbanks's help in seeking the nomination for U. S. President.

Fairbanks sought the Republican nomination for President but Roosevelt ( who chose to not seek reelection ) supported William Howard Taft as his potential successor in 1908, sending Fairbanks back to the practice of law.

In 1916, he sought the Republican presidential nomination, and although he failed in that bid, he did win the nomination for vice president under Charles Evans Hughes on June 10.

Reagan followed his 1981 tax cuts with the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which sought to eliminate deductions, lower marginal rates for the wealthy, and significantly raise taxes on those earning less than $ 50, 000 In 1982 Reagan agreed to a rollback of corporate tax cuts and a smaller rollback of individual income tax cuts.

With the Tax Reform Act of 1986, Reagan and Congress sought to raise taxes on lower incomes, eliminate many deductions, and reduce tax rates on the wealthy.

Led by its founder Preston Manning, the Reform Party rapidly gained momentum in western Canada and sought to expand its base in the east.

Under the leadership of Reform / CA activist Randy Thorsteinson, the new party never sought a formal link with the CA, and if it had done so the overture would likely have been rebuffed since many Albertan CA members continued to support the Alberta Progressive Conservatives.

* Sri Lanka: In 1972, the Government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, through the Land Reform Law, imposed a ceiling of twenty hectares on privately owned land and sought to distribute lands in excess of the ceiling for the benefit of landless peasants.

Led by its founder Preston Manning, the Reform Party rapidly gained momentum in western Canada and sought to expand its base in the east.

The Reform Party unlike other major federal parties did not believe that Quebec secession should be sought to avoided at all cost and by all means because the party believed that this amounted to favouritism to Quebec.

Preston Manning denied that he and most Reformers based their policies on intolerant views, but admitted that the Reform Party's populism had in inadvertent effect of drawing in some intolerant people whom Manning claimed he had always sought to keep out of the Reform Party.

However, Manning did not dispel the possibility of Reform naturally expanding into Quebec in the early 1990s, as in his 1992 book, The New Canada, Manning credits the populist reform tradition in Canada as not having begun in the west, and mentions its early roots in the 19th century reform parties of Upper Canada ( Ontario ) Lower Canada ( Quebec ), and Nova Scotia that fought against colonial elites such as the Family Compact and Château Clique and sought to replace them with responsible governments.

A number of ethnic minorities were sought out as Reform candidates for the upcoming 1997 election.

The Canadian Alliance ( the common short form name of Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance ) was a new political party in the election, having been created only months earlier as the successor to the Reform Party of Canada, a party originally founded as a Western Canada protest party which sought to become a national party in the 1990s.

Lu Ann De Cunzo wrote in her book, Reform, Respite, Ritual: An Archaeology of Institutions ; The Magdalene Society of Philadelphia, 1800-1850, that the women in Philadelphia's asylum " sought a refuge and a respite from disease, the prison or almshouse, unhappy family situations, abusive men and dire economic circumstances.

When the Reform Party was folded into the Canadian Alliance, he sought the party leadership, but finished fourth with 2 % of the vote.

As illustrated in " The Pentagon Wars ", Boyd and like-minded up-and-comers formed the " Reform Movement " and sought to overturn existing chains of command and introduce new weapons and tactics across the entire armed forces.

The Benedictine Reform was a movement which sought to institute monastic standards among the secular clergy, a movement made popular by the churchmen of the Carolingian Empire in the ninth and tenth centuries.

Roberts subsequently sought the Reform Party's nomination in the British Columbia riding of Saanich — Gulf Islands for the 1988 federal election, but was defeated.

He expressed interest in working with the Canadian Alliance, a successor to the Reform Party that sought to build support among Blue Tory Progressive Conservatives.

A delegation from the National Reform Association sought to meet with Abraham Lincoln on February 11, 1864, to solicit his endorsement of the amendment.

Indeed, the re-designation of the synagogue as " temple " was one of the hallmarks of early Reform in 19th century Germany, when Berlin was declared the new Jerusalem, and Reform Jewry sought to demonstrate their staunch German nationalism.