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Subject:        Re: looking for Congressional District map for Manhattan, 1924
Date:   Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:55:17 GMT
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That reminds me -- a trivia question popped up in regard to the 2000 Presidential election.  (Please, this is a historical question, not a political one.)  Which 3 U.S. Presidents have lost their state of residence but won the Presidency?

The answer is:

1968 - Richard Nixon (was a resident of New York at the time -- Humphrey won New York).
1916 - Woodrow Wilson (Charles Evans Hughes won New Jersey)
1844 - James K. Polk (Henry Clay won Tennessee.)

Anyway, much was made around here that Albert Gore lost his home CD in 2000.  Did Nixon lose his in '68?  The website nixonfoundation.org says that his apartment was overlooking Central Park -- I suppose that could have been any of several CD's back then.  Nowadays all the Manhattan CD's are reliably Democrat although back then the "silk stocking" district did have a Republican streak (was that near Central Park?)

Well, there's absolutely nothing riding on this question so don't go to a whole lot of trouble...just wondering...

Joe McCollum
FIA
Knoxville, TN