Have a President Unanimously Elected by the Electoral College Post-Washington

As the title reads, could it be possible for an American President to be elected unanimously by the EC, without being Washington?

The first three to come to mind for me are FDR, Ronald Reagan, or Calvin Coolidge, wildly popular during their presidencies and pretty popular after, any chance of a unanimous victory without going ASB?
 
Mondale very narrowly won Minnesota by a few thousand votes,so it's probably not too difficult for Reagan to win. But Reagan only won 14% of the popular votes in DC. It would be necessary for DC to remain without electoral votes, which might result in a very different 84 election.
 
With how divided we are these days can't happen now. historically some have come close..FOR .
Nixon and Reagan so.....a little tweak could have done it
 
Monroe won every single state in 1820
With one person then not voting for him to preserve Washington's legacy though, oddly enough, Wikipedia shows him as not getting three votes. And looking at it, it seems that it was other people who claimed that was his reasoning behind it,
 
As has been said, all you need is for William Plumer to cast his vote for Monroe in 1820. 1804 was also pretty close - Jefferson only lost Delaware and Connecticut, whose electors were chosen by state legislature. I don't know anything about the internal politics of those states at the time, so it may or may not be possible for the Democratic-Republicans to get control of them before 1804. The problem in later dates is that there seems to always be at least one state or region that is solidly against the winning candidate - Kentucky in 1864, Vermont and Maine in 1936, the South in 1964, etc.
Eisenhower seeks and obtains both party's nominations either in 1948 or 1952
But for the two parties to agree on a single candidate they would also need to agree on a single platform, which is nearly impossible barring extreme circumstances.
He only lost Massachusetts and D.C. in OTL
But he lost the latter by 56 points. Because of D.C., it'd be extremely difficult for a Republican to unanimously win the EC post-23rd Amendment. Similarly, though, it would also be extremely difficult for them to win it pre-23rd Amendment because of the Solid South.
 
Reagan came pretty close, so maybe tweak the votes in the state(s) that went against him?

Again, the problem is the District of Columbia.

I can actually see Mondale being shut out of the Electoral College if Jesse Jackson runs a third party campaign. Such a campaign could take more than enough votes in MN to give that state to Reagan. And maybe Jackson could carry DC (hence the Mondale shut-out). But Jackson's candidacy cannot plausibly result in Reagan carrying DC--Reagan got only 13.73 percent there in OTL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1984
 
Would a TL where DC had not been given the right to vote until later have affected things enough to drastically change outcomes? It's always seemed a bit inconsequential
 
Eisenhower seeks and obtains both party's nominations either in 1948 or 1952
Considering Eisenhower just got done defeating fascism in Europe I don't think he would try to get both of the party's nomination in specially in 48. With his health is even got me through 48 to 52? Everybody talks about him being a great president and it was more in my mind is he wasn't Truman and nothing really bad happened he did manage to Kick the Can down the road on Korea. I don't dislike him I don't think he was a bad General I think he was a better politician but still decent it would be political suicide for him to take both parties. Also considering that FDR made him the popular figure of being a general during the war and that kind of like a gratitude to run as a Republican? Also by getting both parties with his extramarital Affairs come to light?
 
McGovern won Massachusetts 54% to 45% but he won DC 78% to 22%. I can't see Nixon winning DC
Massachusetts was much more liberal than and it is now in areas so the fact that he only won Massachusetts by 9 points I could see where they could flip 54 to 45 is not exactly a ringing endorsement it's a winning endorsement but not necessarily a mandate
 
Eisenhower seeks and obtains both party's nominations either in 1948 or 1952

Extremely unlikely, though Ike himself supposedly once raised the possibility. Chester Bowles, one of the ADA liberals http://spartacus-educational.com/USACada.htm who was trying to draft Eisenhower in 1948 (because Truman was sure to lose...) recalled in his memoirs:

"No one knew Eisenhower's political views, and I felt it was quite possible that he did not have any. I decided to find out. I called his office at Columbia University and an appointment was arranged for the following day. After a two-hour discussion I was convinced: (1) that he wanted to become President; (2) that this desire was qualified by his reluctance to participate in the turmoil of political life; (3) that his ideas on domestic policy were almost wholly unformed; and (4) that he was incredibly naive politically. As evidence of this latter point General Eisenhower seriously asked me at the end of our discussion if it might be possible for him to be nominated by both parties. I came away badly shaken."

IMO Eisenhower was not naive at all. He did not want to run for president in 1948, and was particularly annoyed by the way that Democratic leaders--ranging from ADA liberals to big city bosses to southern segregationists--were trying to get him to run to save the party from seemingly inevitable defeat, and he would have none of it. (He noted in his diary that the Republican demand for his candidacy came from grass roots Republicans, whereas the Democratic demand was from political leaders sure that Truman would lose. He didn't want either party's nomination.) I think he was just politely trying to give Bowles the brush-off.

As for 1952, remember that Ike only narrowly won the GOP nomination against Taft in OTL. If he had announced he would try to get the Democratic nomination as well, the Republicans would never have nominated him. As it was, his biggest struggle was to convince the party that he was a "real" Republican.
 
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