History museums lean to focus on presidential nominees who gain ground elections , but a way-out gallery in Norton , Kansas , called " They Also Ran " does the exact contrary : It pay court to the ones who lost . Now , The Boston Globereports , its conservator is groom to impart a Modern portraiture of either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton to the expo .
" They Also hunt down " is more than 50 years old and sits above the tiny town ’s First State Bank . A banker named William Rouse found it in 1965 to commemorateHorace Greely , the beginner and editor program ofThe New York Tribune , who ran for president in 1872 .
Greely lost the election , but Rouse appreciated the fact that , unlike many other presidential candidates , Greely had once impose Norton . The banker named the museum after a 1943 al-Qur’an calledThey Also Ran , pen by biographer Irving Stone , that cater a historical flavour at 19 presidential wannabe .
Sixty black - and - lily-white photographs of past political losers line the exhibition ’s walls . They get withThomas Jefferson , who lost America ’s third - ever presidential raceway to John Adams in 1796 , and end with Mitt Romney , who was defeated by Barack Obama in 2012 . ( George Washington had no real opposite run against him in the nation ’s first two election . )
Winning a U.S. presidential election requires courage and stamina , but so does run for office .
“ These guy cable deserve some realization for having the guts to run for president , " Roberta Ryan , a Norton city councilor , toldThe Boston Globe . " The Chief Executive gets his due , and these guy cable were just leave by the wayside . This is a gentle reminder that these fellas are part of our chronicle . And a stack of them probably worked harder than the vice presidents . ”
Not everyone is as hypnotised with the retentiveness of America ’s potential preceding leaders as Norton ’s resident are . Only a few hundred multitude jaw " They Also run " each yr , and no presidential runner - up has ever seen the museum in someone . ( According toTime , Bob Dole , who hails from Kansas , once visited Norton and curator Lee Ann Shearer showed him a pictorial matter of the exhibit . )
“ No one like the guy who come in 2d place , ” Shearer toldTime . “ But we ’re gallant of the hoi polloi who attempt . "
[ h / tThe Boston Globe ]
