In the presidential election of eighteen-sixty, he supported his party's candidate, not the candidate of the Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

And he made sure the country held its next presidential election as planned in eighteen sixty-four,when he was re-elected.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

It was the first time a presidential election was held on the same day in all parts of the country.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

One year after the bombs were dropped on Japan, he received the Presidential Medal of Merit for his work.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission has a message: Pay no attention to competing claims of victory in the presidential election.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

Former President George W.Bush presented Benjamin Carson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony at the White House.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

An official from the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library presented the films to the Library of Congress during a ceremony in October.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

To win the presidential election of eighteen sixty, the Republican Party had decided it needed a man of the people.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

A year later,President Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

So,a few months before the presidential election of eighteen ninety-two, America's agricultural Alliances held a joint convention in Omaha,Nebraska.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

President Obama on Friday praised the millions of Afghans who took part in their country's presidential and provincial elections.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

And since it was eighteen eighty-eight -- a presidential election year -- the tariff became an important election issue.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

The Democratic Party chose for its presidential candidate a hero of the Civil War -- General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

As the nation prepared for a presidential election year, the South renewed its promise to defend slavery or leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

This week in our series, Shirley Griffith and Ray Freeman tell about the presidential election of eighteen eighty-eight.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Congressman James Blaine seemed to have the best chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination in eighteen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Douglas believed that, of the other candidates, Abraham Lincoln had the best chance of winning the presidential election.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Those are some of the musicians who will perform at the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Blaine replied: "If the presidential nomination is offered to me, I could not and would not accept it."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Roosevelt would make Garner the vice presidential nominee if Garner's forces voted to make Roosevelt the presidential nominee.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

The civil disorder caused by these differences was the chief issue in the presidential election of eighteen fifty-six.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

She announced her support for the vice-presidential nomination of Lloyd Bentsen at the nineteen eighty-eight convention in Atlanta.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

The steamer Lady Elgin was carrying passengers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Chicago to hear a speech by Democratic presidential candidate Stephen Douglas.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The speech followed days of protests by hundreds of thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

VOA: special.2009.06.20