Mike Sells (D) To top of page. 39th District. Represents the eastern part of Skagit and Snohomish counties, and the northeast part of King County including Sedro Woolley, Concrete, Arlington, Darrington, Granite Falls, Monroe, Sultan, Gold Bar Index, Skykomish and part of Marysville.
Answer: Four presidents took office without winning the popular vote. In other words, they did not receive a plurality in terms of the popular vote. They were elected, instead, by the electoral college or in the case of John Quincy Adams by the House of Representatives after a tie in the electoral votes. They were: 1  John Quincy Adams who lost by 44,804 votes to Andrew Jackson in 1824. 2  Rutherford B. Hayes who lost by 264,292 votes to Samuel J. Tilden in 1876.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: The only elected president to lose re-nomination was Franklin Pierce in 1856. Chester A. Arthur, who succeeded to the presidency upon the assassination of James A. Garfield on September 20, 1881, failed to win the 1884 Republican Presidential nomination for a full term of his own. He left office on March 3, 1885 and died of Bright's Disease (a kidney ailment) on November 18, 1886 at the age of 57.