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Richard M. Nixon

Presidency

Whom did he defeat to win the 1968 general election?

Nixon defeated Democrat Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and American Independent candidate George Wallace of Alabama. Humphrey was a longtime member of the U.S. Senate and had served as President Lyndon B. Johnson’s vice president. Wallace, a governor of Alabama, had some popularity among some whites in the South for his position against desegregation. Nixon won in a close election with an electoral vote count of 301 to 191 votes for Humphrey and 46 for Wallace.