1972 United States Presidential Election In Louisiana
The 1972 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the Washington, D.C., District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose ten electors to the United States Electoral College, Electoral College, who voted for President of the United States, president and Vice President of the United States, vice president. Louisiana was won by the Republican Party (United States), Republican nominees, incumbent President of the United States, President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President of the United States, Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nominees, United States Senate, Senator George McGovern of List of United States senators from South Dakota, South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland. Nixon carried Louisiana with 65.32% of the vote to McGover ...
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. His five years in the White House saw reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the first manned Moon landings, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early, when he became the only president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal. Nixon was born into a poor family of Quakers in a small town in Southern California. He graduated from Duke Law School in 1937, practiced law in California, then moved with his wife Pat to Washington in 1942 to work for the federal government. After active duty ...
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