United States Presidential Election, 1960 (The FDR Amendment)

The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. The Republican Party nominated former Vice President candidate Richard Nixon over his former Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower, who would run as an independent Candidate, while the Democratic Party originally first re nominated George S. Patton but would later nominate John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts upon Patton's request. This was the first presidential election in which voters in Alaska and Hawaii were able to participate, as both had become states in 1959.

Kennedy is generally considered to have won the national popular vote by 112,827, a margin of 0.17% (although the unusual nature of the election in Alabama has caused some to question this figure), and though Nixon carried more individual states (26 to 22), Kennedy won a 303 to 219 Electoral College victory.