Gabbard, Castro Face Long Odds With 2020 White House Bids

Julian Castro (L) announces his candidacy for president in 2020 at Plaza Guadalupe in San Antonio, Texas on Jan. 12, 2019. Representative Tulsi Gabbard (R) speaks at the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 26, 2016. Edward A. Ornelas/Getty Images; TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

Members of the House of Representatives elected a president—John Quincy Adams in the deadlocked 1824 contest—but only one sitting member of the lower chamber was ever elected to the Oval Office.

Tragically, that one sitting member was James A. Garfield (R-Ohio), who was inaugurated in 1881 and then shot dead by an assassin within months.