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Jimmy Carter, former Governor of Georgia elected the thirty-ninth president in 1976 in the beginning of that same year, Carter was relatively unknown outside his home state of Georgia but went on to win the nomination over rivals with more national prominence.

Dewey, yet managed to shock the world by emerging victorious in the 1948 United States presidential election – widely considered one of the biggest upsets in American history. Truman was considered a lame duck President with no chance of winning against Republican nominee and New York Governor Thomas E.

Truman, Vice-President and former Senator from Missouri and thirty-third president, was virtually unknown to the American people when he succeeded President Franklin D. Harding, Senator from Ohio, elected the twenty-ninth president in 1920 after his surprise nomination. Garfield, elected the twentieth president in 1880. Hayes, elected the nineteenth president in 1876.

Abraham Lincoln, chosen as the Republican nominee and elected as the sixteenth president in 1860.

Franklin Pierce, chosen as the Democratic nominee and later elected the fourteenth president in 1852.

Other successful dark horse candidates for the United States presidency include: Polk won the nomination on the ninth ballot at his party's national nominating convention, and went on to become the country's eleventh president.

Polk, a relatively unknown Tennessee politician who won the Democratic Party's 1844 presidential nomination over a host of better-known candidates. Politically, the concept came to the United States in the nineteenth century when it was first applied to James K.

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