In the 1912 election he defeated a sitting president & a former president
The contest 
was between incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his Republican 
opponent, former ... Carter, after defeating Edward M. Kennedy for the 
Democratic nomination,... [DOC] [TLE] Can You Name the 10 Incumbent Presidents Who Were Defeated ... [PAR] May 13, 2015 ... Election Year Defeated President Defeated by ... 1912 William Howard Taft 
Woodrow Wilson ... After he was defeated in 1888 for re-election by Benjamin 
Harrison, he came back four years later to toss Harrison out of 1600 ... As a 
former president Theodore Roosevelt was defeated for re-election in 1912.