1976 United States presidential election 1976 United States presidential election The United States presidential election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democrat Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford from Michigan. Carter's win represented the lone Democratic victory in a presidential election held between 1968 and 1988. President Richard Nixon had won the 1972 election with Spiro Agnew as his running mate, but in 1973 Agnew resigned and Ford was appointed as Vice President via the 25th Amendment. When Nixon resigned in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Ford ascended to the
David Agnew (president) David Agnew (president) David Agnew (born 1957) is the current president of Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His career has spanned the fields of journalism, politics, public service, the cooperative sector, strategy consulting, international development and dispute resolution. Agnew was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and was raised in Toronto. At 15, he became a sports reporter for the "Toronto Sun" and after finishing high school went to St. John's, Newfoundland to join the newsroom of the "Evening Telegram". A year later he enrolled as a full-time student at Memorial University of Newfoundland, graduating in