John McCain and Barry Goldwater, the defeated candidate in the 1964 US Presidential Election, were both Senators for which state?
1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota 1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota The 1964 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 3, 1964, in Minnesota as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. The Democratic Party candidate, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had assumed the presidency less than a year earlier following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, won the state over U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona by a margin of 431,493 votes, or 27.76 percent. Johnson went on to win the election nationally, by a landslide margin of 22.58 percent of the popular vote. Goldwater carried only six
1964 United States presidential election 1964 United States presidential election The United States presidential election of 1964, the 45th quadrennial American presidential election, was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee. With 61.1% of the popular vote, Johnson won the largest share of the popular vote of any candidate since the largely uncontested 1820 election. Johnson had come to office in November 1963 following the assassination of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. He easily defeated a primary challenge by segregationist Governor George Wallace of Alabama to win nomination to a full term. At the