National Election Statistics

102,743,000
Voting Age Population
60.4%
Turnout by VAP

1956 Presidential Election

Results of the presidential election of 1956, won by Dwight D. Eisenhower with 457 electoral votes.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Cabinet

President: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)

Vice President: Richard Nixon (1953-1961)

Secretary of State: John Foster Dulles (1953-1959), Christian Herter (1959-1961)

Secretary of the Treasury: Robert B. Anderson (1957-1961)

Secretary of Defense: Neil H. McElroy (1957-1959), Thomas S. Gates Jr. (1959-1961)

Attorney General: William P. Rogers (1957-1961)

Postmaster General: Arthur Summerfield (1953-1961)

Secretary of the Interior: Fred A. Seaton (1956-1961)

Secretary of Agriculture: Ezra Taft Benson (1953-1961)

Secretary of Commerce: Sinclair Weeks (1953-1958), Frederick H. Mueller (1959-1961)

Secretary of Labor: James P. Mitchell (1953-1961)

Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare: Marion B. Folsom (1955-1958), Arthur Flemming (1958-1961)

Director of the Bureau of the Budget: Percival Brundage (1956-1958), Maurice Stans (1958-1961)

Ambassador to the United Nations: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1953-1960), James Jeremiah Wadsworth (1960-1961)

Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization: Gordon Gray (1957-1958)

Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration: Leo Hoegh (1957-1958)

Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization: Leo Hoegh (1958-1961)

Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission: Lewis Strauss (1953-1958), John A. McCone (1958-1961)

Chief of Staff: Sherman Adams (1953-1958), Wilton Persons (1958-1961)

Deputy Chief of Staff: Wilton Persons (1953-1958), Gerald D. Morgan (1958-1961)

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1956 National Election

266 to win
26,022,752 votes (42.0%)
Running Mate: Estes Kefauver
35,590,472 votes (57.4%)
Running Mate: Richard Nixon

This was the last presidential election prior to the statehood of Alaska and Hawaii, who would first take part as states in the 1960 presidential election.

State Electoral Votes

Alabama

10

Alaska

Arizona

4

Arkansas

8

California

32

Colorado

6

Connecticut

8

Delaware

3

District of Columbia

Florida

10

Georgia

12

Hawaii

Idaho

4

Illinois

27

Indiana

13

Iowa

10

Kansas

8

Kentucky

10

Louisiana

10

Maine

5

Maryland

9

Massachusetts

16

Michigan

20

Minnesota

11

Mississippi

8

Missouri

13

Montana

4

Nebraska

6

Nevada

3

New Hampshire

4

New Jersey

16

New Mexico

4

New York

45

North Carolina

14

North Dakota

4

Ohio

25

Oklahoma

8

Oregon

6

Pennsylvania

32

Rhode Island

4

South Carolina

8

South Dakota

4

Tennessee

11

Texas

24

Utah

4

Vermont

3

Virginia

12

Washington

9

West Virginia

8

Wisconsin

12

Wyoming

3