President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the incumbent, running with Spiro Agnew as VP, going into the 1956 presidential election in Maryland; he won the election with 60 percent of the popular vote, won all 24 county races, and remains the solitary presdential candidate to sweep all of Maryland's counties and Baltimore City
President Dwight D. Eisenhower successfully ran for reelection against Adlai Stevenson, the former Illinois governor whom he had defeated four years earlier. Dwight David Eisenhower (Incumbent) Richard Milhous Nixon 
