October 3, 1991

William Jefferson Clinton, governor of Arkansas, announced that he would run for president in 1992. He received forty-three percent of the popular vote to incumbent George H. W. Bush’s thirty-eight percent and Independent Party’s Ross Perot’s nineteen percent; he won even more decisively in the Electoral College, 370 to 168.

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