I'd rather be right than be President!
— Henry Clay, failed candidate for President in 1824 (third behind Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams), 1832 (National Republican Nominee, lost to Jackson), 1840 (lost the Whig nomination to William Henry Harrison), 1844 (Whig Nominee, lost to James K. Polk), 1848 (lost the Whig nomination to Zachary Taylor). Clay died in 1852, preventing another run.
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