United States presidential election, 1956 (Confederate Wipe out CYOAH)

The United States presidential election of 1956 was the 43rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1956. The unpopular incumbent President, Democrat Thomas E. Dewey successfully ran for re-election. The election was one of the most controversial Presidential Elections until the Presidential Election of 1977 which had Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King run for and win the presidency becoming the first African American President since Frederick Douglass in 1881.