However, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and extant newspaper clippings from only a few days after the duel give a description of his opponent that more accurately applies to one of Galois ' Republican friends, most probably Ernest Duchatelet, who was imprisoned with Galois on the same charges.

Marshall's opponent in the general election was Republican Congressman James E. Watson, and the campaign focused on temperance and prohibition.

Some of Obama's supporters as well as his presumptive Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, accused the magazine of publishing an incendiary cartoon whose irony could be lost on some readers.

Although winning the Democratic primary is normally tantamount to election in heavily Democratic Chicago, after his primary victory Washington found that his Republican opponent, former state legislator Bernard Epton ( earlier considered a nominal stand-in ), was supported by many white Democrats and ward organizations, including the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, Alderman Edward " Fast Eddie " Vrdolyak.

Roosevelt's Republican opponent was Governor Alf Landon of Kansas, a political moderate.

As a result Truman won a stunning upset victory over his Republican opponent, Thomas E. Dewey.

As a Democrat, he voted with the seven-member minority, in favor of the Samuel J. Tilden electors in all cases, but the Republican majority prevailed in all the votes, and Thurman's 1867 gubernatorial opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes, became President.

However, Dewey polled 46 % of the popular vote, a stronger showing against Roosevelt than any previous Republican opponent.

Stevenson did not use television as effectively as his Republican opponent, popular war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower, and was unable to mobilize the New Deal coalition for one last hurrah.

During the 1876 presidential election, Tilden won the popular vote over his Republican opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes, proving that the Democrats were once again competitive in the American political process following the Civil War.

In an interview on CNN's The Situation Room on April 7, 2008, Ventura hinted that he was considering entering the race for the United States Senate seat then held by Norm Coleman, his Republican opponent in the 1998 Gubernatorial race.

Both the Australian Republican Movement and opponent monarchist groups, such as Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, remain active.

His Republican opponent, Gil Carmichael, an automobile dealer from Meridian, might have been aided by President Richard Nixon's landslide reelection in forty-nine states, including 78 % of Mississippi's popular vote.

A vigorous opponent of slavery, Hayes contributed to her husband ’ s decision to abandon the Whigs for the antislavery Republican Party.

A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a dominant figure in the Republican Party in its formative years, and was widely regarded as the leading contender for the party's presidential nomination in 1860.

He was an energetic opponent of slavery and his speech attacking the pro-slavery Lecompton Legislature in Kansas became the most widely requested Republican campaign document in the election.

Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery.

Hunterdon also supported Steve Lonegan for Governor over Chris Christie, his less conservative opponent in the 2009 Republican Primary, by a 4. 0 % margin.

The county is a traditional stronghold for the Republican Party, with a substantial conservative population, although the 2008 Presidential Election marked the first time since 1964 a Democratic Presidential candidate received more votes than his Republican opponent.

In 1912, Democrat candidate Woodrow Wilson had carried the county with a 3. 06 % majority over its Republican opponent William Taft.

Some credit Simon's primary win to incumbent Governor Gray Davis ' preemptive campaign against Simon's major primary opponent, former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan, a moderate Republican, whom Davis considered a more formidable opponent.

His Republican opponent and the nationwide winner, President George W. Bush, only won 17 % of the vote in Evanston.

Wendell Lewis Willkie (; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944 ) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for president in 1940.

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

* February 18 – Wendell Willkie, U. S. Republican presidential candidate ( d. 1944 )

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

At the 1944 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, Dewey easily overcame Bricker and was nominated on the first ballot.

Dewey, who had been the Republican nominee in 1944, was regarded as the frontrunner when the primaries began.

In 1944 and 1948, he was the Republican candidate for President, but lost both times.

With Edwin Jaeckle leading his campaign, Dewey pursued the Republican nomination in 1944.

At the 1944 Republican Convention, his chief rivals, Ohio governor John W. Bricker and former Minnesota governor Harold Stassen both withdrew and Dewey was nominated almost unanimously.

Being the center-point for a Republican Party revolution in Indiana and the Midwest, mainly by sponsoring a huge " Cornfield-Conference " on one of his farms in 1938, Capehart was first elected to the United States Senate in 1944, narrowly defeating Henry Schricker, going on to win subsequent victories in 1950 and 1956 against token opposition.

Dulles was a close associate of Thomas E. Dewey, who became the presidential candidate of the Republican Party in the 1944 election and 1948.

In 1944, as Dewey's adviser, Dulles took an active role in establishing the Republican plank calling for the establishment of a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine.

** ( Sammarinese Fascist Party ) 1926-1943, ( Republican Fascio of San Marino ) 1944

In December 1943, Congressman Dirksen announced that he would be a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1944.

When all was said and done, he received no votes for either office at the 1944 Republican Convention.

* Thomas E. Dewey, lawyer, author, mob-busting District Attorney of New York City, three term Governor of New York ( 1942, 1946, 1950 ), and the Republican presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948.

* Dick Zimmer ( born 1944 ), former member of the United States House of Representatives, Republican candidate for United States Senate in 1996 and 2008.

* Dick Zimmer ( born 1944 ), former member of the United States House of Representatives, Republican candidate for United States Senate in 1996 and 2008.

The Republican Party, nominating Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey in 1944 and 1948, supported civil rights legislation that the Southern Democrats in Congress almost unanimously opposed.

" Finally, in part under the influence of New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Fish's congressional career ended when he won the Republican Party primary in his district but lost the general election in 1944.

Stassen was later best known for being a perennial candidate for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States, seeking it 12 times between 1944 and 2000 ( 1944, 1948, 1952, 1964, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000 ), but never winning it or, after 1952, even coming close.

* Thomas E. Dewey ( 1902 – 1971 ) was the Governor of New York ( 1943 – 1955 ) and the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U. S. Presidency in 1944 and 1948.

His father was a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising and a former adjutant in the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) who was elected to Dáil Éireann in 1944 as a Fianna Fáil candidate.