Despite the fact that Congress investigated every executive office of his administration for corruption, Ulysses S. Grant thought he might run for President again. The Republican Party did not want Grant to run again, which lead to a variety of potential candidates.
In the end, Rutherford B. Hayes, Governor of Ohio, won the nomination. This election ended with controversy over the electoral votes of three southern states with state governments controlled by federal (and Republican) authorities.
Extending the right to vote
Senate Joint Resolution 7 proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would extend the right to vote to citizens 18 years of age or older. Introduced on January 21, 1971, during the first session of the 92nd Congress, and passed by Congress March 23, 1971, it became the 26th Amendment to the Constitution
I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces.
President Eisenhower, State of the Union Address
February 2, 1953
November 3, 1964. Lyndon Baines Johnson is elected President of the United States with the greatest percentage of the total popular vote (61%) ever attained by a Presidential candidate. Hubert Humphrey is elected Vice President.
Nov. 2, 1976: Nuns from the Little Sisters of the Poor vote early in the morning at an East 1st Street polling place during heavy turnout in the presidential election pitting Republican incumbent Gerald Ford against Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter. The sisters ran a home for the elderly next to the polling place.
Photo credit: Steve Fontanini / Los Angeles Times
The Voting Rights Act. Signed August 6, 1965.