President
Party
Term of Office
Losing Candidate
Party
Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican
1877–1881
Samuel J. Tilden 1
Democratic
James A. Garfield
Republican
1881–1881 2
Winfield Scott Hancock
Democratic
Chester A. Arthur 3
Republican
1881–1885
N/A
N/A
Grover Cleveland
Democratic
1885–1889
James G. Blain
Republican
Benjamin Harrison
Republican
1889–1893
Grover Cleveland
Democratic
Grover Cleveland
Democratic
1893–1897
Benjamin Harrison
Republican
William McKinley 4
Republican
1897–1901
William Jennings Bryan
Democratic/Populist
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican
1901–1909
Alton B. Parker
Democratic
William H. Taft
Republican
1909–1913
William Jennings Bryan
Democratic
Woodrow Wilson
Democratic
1913–1921
Theodore Roosevelt (1912); Charles Evans Hughes (1916)
Republican
1 The Hayes-Tilden election of 1876 produced unclear results, but by agreement between the two parties Hayes was seated as president while Tilden and the Democrats got a pullout of federal troops in the South.
2 Garfield was assassinated while in office.
3 As vice-president, Arthur succeeded Garfield and served one term.
4 McKinley won re-election in 1900, again against Bryan, but was assassinated in 1901, six months into his second term.
