His presidency ended following his narrow defeat in the 1976 presidential election to democrat jimmy carter, after a period of 895 days in office. Here are all nine of the us presidents who became president without having been elected president Although they all served as president following the deaths of their predecessors, none of them were able to secure nomination for the subsequent presidential election
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote: “Presidents are selected, not elected
So poor gerald ford is distinguished as the only president never to win any kind of presidential election (although he was elected as a representative before becoming vice.
Ford became the first, and so far the only, person to become president without winning a general election for president or vice president
The 25th amendment to the constitution allowed ford to assume the presidency after he was selected by nixon to replace spiro agnew, the vice president elected on the 1972 republican ticket who resigned in an. Ford became vice president without having run for that office, and in august of 1974 he ascended to the presidency, the only us president not elected either president or vice president
