Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph CollectionJimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention, July 15, 1976. Less than four months later, he was elected president, defeating the Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford.
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On Nov. 2, 1976, Jimmy Carter defeated the Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first United States president from the Deep South since the Civil War.
Mr. Carter, a Democrat and former Georgia governor who had served just one term, and a peanut farmer from a small town, was an unlikely candidate. The Nov. 3 New York Times reported that his aspiration to become president was initially “dismissed as an absurdity by the elders of his party.”
He began “as a lonely campaigner, short on money, staff and national recognition. But he was relentless in his early effort, meeting voters in two’s and three’s, and it slowly began to pay off” and he won a surprise victory in the primaries.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Nov. 2, 1976 | Carter Defeats Ford in Presidential Election
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