NBC declares Kennedy the winner  

NBCs David Brinkley covering election results

 
John F. Kennedy on Election Night about to deliver his victory speech.

Sen. John F. Kennedy as he joined approximately 67,000,000 voters 
in casting a ballot for President of the United States in Boston, Nov.
8, 1960.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the 1940 election of November 5th with 55% of the popular vote and 38 of the 48 states. Henry A. Wallace ws named Vice President in
place of the conservative Texan John Nance Garner. 

On this day in 1924, Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected as the nation’s first
female governor to serve out the remaining term of her late husband, William B.
Ross who died of complications from an appendectomy. As the 14th Governor
of Wyoming she served from 1925 to 1927. On May 3, 1933 President Franklin
Roosevelt appointed her the first female director of the U.S. Mint, where she
served five full terms until her retirement in 1953. Ross died in December of
1977 at the age of 101.  

James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th President of the United States, in office from 1845 to 1849. When he took office, Polk, at 49, became
the youngest man at the time to assume the presidency.

               
                                         The Polk Presidential Dollar