What was the 1st Presidential Election you voted in?

[Lebam in LA]

Mine was Jimmy Carter. I was 21. Back in the olden days you had to be 21 to vote.

My 1st presidnetial election that I remember was Kennedy/Nixon. I remember coming home from school singing "Nixon, Nixon is our man, Kennedy belongs in a trash can". My parents set me straight the minute they heard it. Life time union members. Thats when I found out about democrats and republicans.

[rug]

1. McGovern.

[Wounded Bear]

2. I voted for Nixon...

I know, I know. I was a young Marine, and Nixon had just arranged the biggest raise in US Military history. That was the year they lowered the voting age to 18, I think I was 19 at the time.

[GeorgeGist]

3. 1968

VOTED FOR: HUMPHREY/MUSKIE

[Yonnie3]

4. McGovern.

[marybourg]

5. L.B.J. nt.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. McGovern.

[No Vested Interest]

7. John Fitzgerald Kennedy!

So glad I had that opportunity, as we were only given it once.

[RebelOne]

11. Me too. I had just turned 21 which was the legal voting age at that time.

[Agnosticsherbet]

8. 1972 George S. McGovern

[Thinkingabout]

9. 1968, Humphrey.

[trof]

12. George McGovern. I was 31 and a new father.

I figured it was time to start being a grownup and registered to vote.
I thought Watergate was a big deal from the get go.

[Mickju]

13. 1968

I voted for Nixon only because he said he had a secret plan to end the war. He lied, obviously, and I have never voted for a Republican since. I had been fiercely anti war and had supported Eugene McCarthy, then Robert Kennedy. I didn't trust Humphrey because he had always supported the war until very near the election. I ended up being drafted at 26 due to a clerical error even though I had had deferments for being a student and then for being a teacher. I was able to enlist in the Air Force and ended up performing in the White House for a president I despised as a member of the USAF Strolling Strings. (I'm a violinist.)

[mainstreetonce]

14. 1968, but I remember ....

I remember being very young,sitting on the back steps and my family listening to the Dewey/ Truman results on radio. Well,what they thought were the results. LOL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. My first Presidential vote must have been LBJ....or whoever came after Kennedy.

It's pretty hazy now!