Keeping Track
These politicians and their surrogates used trains to reach voters at railroad depots and make trackside speeches as verified by newspaper stories and other accounts. The list does not document all of their train tours, their routes, or all of the years in which they campaigned by train.
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William Henry Harrison ∙ 1836 ∙ President Source
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Stephen Douglas ∙ 1858 ∙ US Senate/Illinois
Abraham Lincoln ∙ 1858 ∙ US Senate/Illinois
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Andrew Johnson ∙ 1866 ∙ President
Ulysses S. Grant ∙ 1868 ∙ President Source
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Benjamin Harrison ∙ 1891 ∙ President Source
Adlai Stevenson ∙ 1892 ∙ Vice President Source
William McKinley ∙ 1892 ∙ In Support of Benjamin Harrison Source
William Jennings Bryan ∙ 1896 ∙ President Source
Former Civil War Union Generals ∙ 1896 ∙ In support of McKinley
William Goebel ∙ 1899 ∙ Governor/Kentucky Source
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Theodore Roosevelt ∙ 1900 ∙ Vice President Source
Chauncey Depew ∙ 1900 ∙ In Support of Theodore Roosevelt Source
John G. Woolley ∙ 1900 ∙ President/Prohibition Party Source
Alton B. Parker ∙ 1904 ∙ President Source
Henry Davis ∙ 1904 ∙ Vice President Source
Charles Fairbanks ∙ 1904 ∙ Vice President Source
Eugene Debs ∙ 1908 ∙ President Source
John Kern ∙ 1908 ∙ Vice President Source
James Sherman ∙ 1908 ∙ Vice President Source
Samuel Gompers ∙ 1908 ∙ In Support of William Jennings Bryan Source
William Howard Taft ∙ 1908 ∙ President Source
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Henry Stimson ∙ 1910 ∙ Governor/New York Source
Hiram Johnson ∙ 1912 ∙ Vice President Source
Lawrence Y. Sherman ∙ 1912 ∙ US Senate/Illinois Source
Frank Reid ∙ 1912 ∙ State Attorney General/Illinois Source
Woodrow Wilson ∙ 1912 ∙ President Source
Augustus Owsley Stanley ∙ 1915 ∙ Governor/Kentucky Source
Edwin P. Morrow ∙ 1915 ∙ Governor/Kentucky Source
Charles Evans Hughes ∙ 1916 ∙ President Source
Women for Hughes ∙ 1916 ∙ In Support of Charles Evans Hughes Source
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James M. Cox ∙ 1920 ∙ President Source
Franklin D. Roosevelt ∙ 1920 ∙ Vice President
Leonard Wood ∙ 1920 ∙ President Source
Warren Harding ∙ 1920 ∙ President Source
Charles Dawes ∙ 1924 ∙ Vice President Source
John W. Davis ∙ 1924 ∙ President Source
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ∙ 1924 ∙ Governor/New York Source
Alfred E. Smith ∙ 1928 ∙ President Source
Albert Ottinger ∙ 1928 ∙ Governor/New York Source
Herbert Hoover ∙ 1928 ∙ President Source
Charles Curtis ∙ 1928 ∙ Vice President Source
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Adlai Stevenson II ∙ 1952 ∙ President Source
William Fulbright ∙ 1952 ∙ Stand-In for Adlai Stevenson II Source
Dwight Eisenhower ∙ 1952 ∙ President Source
Richard Nixon ∙ 1952 ∙ Vice President Source
Estes Kefauver ∙ 1956 ∙ Vice President Source
Claude Wickard ∙ 1956 ∙ US Senate/Indiana Source
Clement Miller ∙ 1958 ∙ Congress/California Source
Joseph W. Barr ∙ 1958 ∙ Congress/Indiana Source
Robert A. O’Neal ∙ 1958 ∙ Sheriff/Indiana Source
Phillip L. Bayt ∙ 1958 ∙ Mayor/Indiana Source
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John F. Kennedy ∙ 1960 ∙ President Source
Lyndon B. Johnson ∙ 1960 ∙ Vice President Source
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. ∙ 1960 ∙ Vice President Source
John Connally ∙ 1962 ∙ Governor/Texas Source
Lady Bird Johnson ∙ 1964 ∙ In Support of Lyndon B. Johnson Source
Hubert Humphrey ∙ 1964 ∙ Vice President Source
Barry Goldwater ∙ 1964 ∙ President Source
William E. Miller ∙ 1964 ∙ Vice President Source
Pierre Salinger ∙ 1964 ∙ US Senate/California Source
William Scranton ∙ 1964 ∙ President Source
Joe Tydings ∙ 1964 ∙ US Senate/Maryland Source
Carlton Sickles ∙ 1964 ∙ Congress/Maryland Source
Royce Hanson ∙ 1964 ∙ Congress/Maryland Source
Democratic Candidates ∙ 1964 ∙ Various Offices/Oklahoma Source
Vance Hartke ∙ 1964 ∙ US Senate/Indiana Source
Philip H. Hoff ∙ 1966 ∙ Governor/Vermont Source
Roger D. Branigin ∙ 1966 ∙ Congress/Indiana Source
Karl Rolvaag ∙ 1966 ∙ Governor/Minnesota Source
Charles Percy ∙ 1966 ∙ US Senate/Illinois Source
Dick Tuck ∙ 1966 ∙ State Senate/California Source
Edmund G. “Pat” Brown ∙ 1966 ∙ Governor/California Source
Fred Harris ∙ 1966 ∙ US Senate/Oklahoma Source
Preston Moore ∙ 1966 ∙ Governor/Oklahoma Source
Warren W. Wilentz ∙ 1966 ∙ US Senate/New Jersey Source
Robert Kennedy ∙ 1968 ∙ President Source
Winthrop Rockefeller ∙ 1968 ∙ Governor/Arkansas Source
Gaylord Nelson ∙ 1968 ∙ US Senate/Wisconsin Source
Republican Party ∙ 1968 ∙ Various Offices/South Dakota Source
Bronson La Follette ∙ 1968 ∙ State Attorney General/Wisconsin Source
Glenn Cunningham ∙ 1968 ∙ Congress/Nebraska Source
William Clark ∙ 1968 ∙ US Senate/Illinois Source
Eugene McCarthy ∙ 1968 ∙ President Source
Republican Party ∙ 1968 ∙ Stop McGovern Campaign Source
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John Tunney ∙ 1970 ∙ US Senate/California Source
Milton Shapp ∙ 1970 ∙ Governor/Pennsylvania Source
George McGovern ∙ 1972 ∙ President Source
Edmund Muskie ∙ 1972 ∙ President Source
Ben Barnes ∙ 1972 ∙ Governor/Texas Source
Howard Baker ∙ 1972 ∙ US Senate/Tennessee Source
Richard Lugar ∙ 1974 ∙ US Senate/Indiana Source
James McNulty ∙ 1975 ∙ County Commissioner/Pennsylvania Source
Gerald Ford ∙ 1976 ∙ President Source
Jimmy Carter ∙ 1976 ∙ President Source
Walter Mondale ∙ 1976 ∙ Vice President Source
Bill Brock ∙ 1976 ∙ US Senate/Tennessee Source
John Heinz ∙ 1976 ∙ US Senate/Pennsylvania Source
Andrew Miller ∙ 1977 ∙ Governor/Virginia Source
Ken Maddy ∙ 1978 ∙ Governor/California Source
Hugh Carey ∙ 1978 ∙ Governor/New York Source
Jack Eckerd ∙ 1978 ∙ Governor/Florida Source
Paula Hawkins ∙ 1978 ∙ Lieutenant Governor/Florida Source
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John Anderson ∙ 1980 ∙ President Source
Bill Clements ∙ 1982 ∙ Governor/Texas Source
Chuck Robb ∙ 1982 ∙ Governor/Virginia Source
Gerald Baliles ∙ 1982 ∙ Attorney General/Virginia Source
Reubin Askew ∙ 1983 ∙ President Source
Mickey Edwards ∙ 1984 ∙ Congress/Oklahoma
Gary Hart ∙ 1984 ∙ President Source
Ronald Reagan ∙ 1984 ∙ President Source
Julie Belaga ∙ 1985 ∙ Governor/Connecticut Source
Tom Bradley ∙ 1986 ∙ Governor/California Source
John McCain ∙ 1986 ∙ US Senate/Arizona Source
Jim Broyhill ∙ 1986 ∙ US Senate/North Carolina Source
William Donald Schaefer ∙ 1986 ∙ Governor/Maryland Source
Fob James ∙ 1986 ∙ Governor/Alabama Source
Harvey Sloane ∙ 1986 ∙ Mayoral Inauguration Tour/Kentucky Source
Billy Tauzin ∙ 1987 ∙ Governor/Louisiana Source
Marshall Coleman ∙ 1988 ∙ Governor/Virginia Source
Michael Dukakis ∙ 1988 ∙ President Source
Jesse Jackson ∙ 1988 ∙ President Source
Paul Simon ∙ 1988 ∙ President Source
David Durenberger ∙ 1988 ∙ US Senate/Minnesota Source
Jim Martin ∙ 1988 ∙ Governor/North Carolina Source
Wayne Dowdy ∙ 1988 ∙ US Senate/Mississippi Source
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William Donald Schaefer ∙ 1990 ∙ Governor/Maryland Source
Tommy Thompson ∙ 1990 ∙ Governor/Wisconsin Source
Jean Lloyd-Jones ∙ 1990 ∙ State Senate/Iowa Source
Clayton Williams ∙ 1990 ∙ Governor/Texas Source
Bruce King ∙ 1990 ∙ Governor/New Mexico Source
Bill Richardson ∙ 1990 ∙ Congress/New Mexico Source
Jeff Bingaman ∙ 1990 ∙ US Senate/New Mexico Source
Casey Luna ∙ 1990 ∙ Lieutenant Governor/New Mexico Source
Dianne Feinstein ∙ 1990 ∙ Governor/California Source
Edward Rendell ∙ 1991 ∙ Mayor/Philadelphia Source
George H. W. Bush ∙ 1992 ∙ President Source
Dan Quayle ∙ 1992 ∙ Vice President Source
Howard Dean ∙ 1992 ∙ Governor/Vermont Source
Mary Sue Terry ∙ 1993 ∙ Governor/Virginia Source
Donald S. Beyer ∙ 1993 ∙ Lieutenant Governor/Virginia Source
William D. Dolan III ∙ 1993 ∙ Attorney General/Virginia Source
George Allen ∙ 1993 ∙ Governor/Virginia
William Weld ∙ 1994 ∙ Governor/Massachusetts Source
Paul Cellucci ∙ 1994 ∙ Lieutenant Governor/Massachusetts Source
Mitt Romney ∙ 1994 ∙ US Senate/Massachusetts Source
Joseph Malone ∙ 1994 ∙ State Treasurer/Massachusetts Source
Arne Carlson ∙ 1994 ∙ Governor/Minnesota Source
Gary Revier ∙ 1994 ∙ Congress/Minnesota Source
Robert Dole ∙ 1995 ∙ President Source
Local Democratic Candidates ∙ 1995 ∙ Local Offices/Connecticut Source
Bill Clinton ∙ 1996 ∙ President Source
Mike Huckabee ∙ 1998 ∙ Governor/Arkansas Source
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George W. Bush ∙ 2000 ∙ President Source
Dick Cheney ∙ 2000 ∙ Vice President Source
Mel Carnahan ∙ 2000 ∙ US Senate/Missouri Source
Wendell Bailey ∙ 2000 ∙ Lieutenant Governor/Missouri Source
Tom Osborne ∙ 2000 ∙ Congress/Nebraska Source
George Pataki ∙ 2002 ∙ Governor/New York Source
Rod Blagojevich ∙ 2003 ∙ Gubernatorial Inauguration Tour/Illinois Source
Ernie Fletcher ∙ 2003 ∙ Governor/Kentucky Source
John Kerry ∙ 2004 ∙ President Source
John Edwards ∙ 2004 ∙ Vice President Source
Greg Goode ∙ 2008 ∙ Congress/Indiana Source
Barack Obama ∙ 2008 ∙ President Source
Chet Culver ∙ 2009 ∙ Governor/Iowa Source
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