Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times — in 1884, 1888, and 1892 — and was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1861 to 1913.

Lynch was the only Democrat elected to statewide office.

Politically-oriented people consider their only realistic way to capture political power is to be either a Republican or Democrat.

Harding was the only Republican presidential candidate to ever defeat Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt on a presidential ticket.

* November 5 – United States presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States ' first and only third-term president.

The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties ( John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans candidates ; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican ).

Cleveland also became the first Democrat to be nominated by his party three consecutive times, a distinction that would be equaled only by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and then exceeded by him in 1944.

The Democratic Party's repudiation of the Bourbon Democrats ( their pro-business wing, represented by incumbent President Grover Cleveland ), set the stage for 36 years of Republican control of the White House, interrupted only by the two terms of Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

Lancaster County's native son James Buchanan, a Democrat, was elected as the 15th President of the United States in 1856, the only Pennsylvanian to hold the presidency.

The only Southern state to give its 1968 electoral votes to Democrat Hubert Humphrey was Texas, where he benefited — in marked contrast to most of the rest of America — by association with sitting President and " favorite son " Lyndon Johnson.

In the 2008 Presidential election Democrat Barack Obama won the county over Republican John McCain by only 16 votes a margin of 48. 87 % to 48. 17 %.

In 2008 Democrat Barack Obama won Klickitat County over Republican John McCain by only 21 votes or percentage wise 48. 85 % to 48. 64 %.

In 2008 92 % of voters voted for Republican John McCain versus only 7. 92 % for Democrat Barack Obama making it one of the most Republican counties in the United States.

In 1845 the paper was sold to James Alexander, and after only six weeks, sold back to John Cassil, who turned the paper back into a Democrat political newspaper.

Incuumbent Democrat Circuit Court Clerk Rachelle Beasley was the only member of her party to win re-election for county office ; incumbent Republican Collector Terri Mitchell had no opposition in either the primary or the general election.

Currently District 1 Supervisor Anthony Hales is the only Democrat serving in an elected position in Pearl River County.

In 2008 Democrat Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain by only 6 votes becoming the first Democrat to win the county since 1956.

In 2004 it was one of only two counties in Maine to vote for Republican George W. Bush over Democrat John Kerry.

In 2008 Republican John McCain defeated Democrat Barack Obama 49. 47 % to 48. 87 %, a difference of only 144 votes.

Although Barack Obama got only 38. 45 % of Hamilton County's vote during the 2008 election, it is the highest percentage a Democrat presidential candidate has been able to get for this county since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 ( who himself had also lost the county ).

In the last thirteen Presidential elections Jimmy Carter was the only Democrat to carry the county.

In the last century the only Democrat to lose the county was George McGovern.

In 1962, Tensas Parish, with only whites registered, gave the Republican Taylor W. O ' Hearn, later a state representative from Shreveport, 48. 2 percent of the vote in a race for the U. S. Senate against incumbent Democrat Russell B.

We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

and, since the historian should only be interested in strictly terrestrial activity, his research should eliminate the supernatural.

Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.

It was only hours since I had last seen them, but they had changed and I had changed.

He will be considered not only great among his contemporaries, but as great among all the Americans who have played a part in the country's history since the beginning.

We have only to compare the liberty and high standard of living we enjoy in this great country with the oppression and frugality of other nations to realize with humble gratitude that God's Providence has been with us since the very beginning of our country.

The first substantially complete stereo Giselle ( and the only one of its scope since Feyer's four-sided LP edition of 1958 for Angel ), this set is, I'm afraid, likely to provide more horrid fascination than enjoyment.

A Barrette Swiss pattern file is handy since its triangular shape with only one cutting face will allow you to work a surface without marring an adjoining one.

After the frames and transom are set up on the jig and temporarily braced, a piece of three-inch-wide mahogany ( only widths will be given since the 13/16-inch thickness is used throughout ) is butted between frames one and two below the line of the keelson.

Further, there is no mileage charge or mileage limitations when you lease a car, and you pay only the flat monthly rate plus a nominal charge for documents and insurance since the car is registered and insured individually for your trip.

The upper limit was determined by the difficulty of measuring the characteristic anode surface temperature ( see below ) since only a small region of the anode was struck by the arc.

It is presumed that this negative head was associated with some geometric factor of the assembly, since different readings were obtained with the same fluid and the only apparent difference was the assembly and disassembly of the apparatus.

The lower portion permits comparison of maturity levels of short and round bones predominantly, since only two long bones are included in Hand and Wrist as a region.

Furthermore, one can find a neighborhood of Q in which the difference function is monotone, for since it is analytic it can have only a finite number of extrema in any interval.

However, since the pencil contains a secant of **zg it actually contains only Af singular lines.

In this model, then, the industry is presumed to realize that they could successfully resist a change in the basic wage rate, but since such a change is the only effective means to raising prices they may, in circumstances to be spelled out in Part 2, below, find it to their advantage to allow the wage rise.

Thus, for non-negative changes in the basic wage rate, the industry becomes the active wage-setter, since any increase in the basic wage rate can occur only by reason of industry acquiescence.

By these measures, Congress, so the Court ( in effect ) now decides, gave not only needless but inadequate relief, since it now appears that the federal courts have inherent power to sterilize the Act of 1875 against all proceedings challenging local regulation ''.

In the only sense in which badness is involved at all, whatever was bad in the first case is still present in its entirety, since all that is expressed in either case is a state of feeling, and that feeling is still there.

These dates are virtually the only clues we have to the chronology of the poems, since the separate volumes are neither chronological within themselves nor in relation to each other.

In fact, his only disciple -- the only person to imitate his style -- was W. S. Graham, who seems to have imitated him without much understanding, and who has since moved on to other methods.

This low BOD was due to removal of the excess suspended solids by sedimentation since the only dilution was surface runoff which was very low during this study.