Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Al Gore, Bob Dole: All five won their party’s presidential nominations after previous failed attempts. All went on to lose.
The New York Times editorial about the death of President George H. W. Bush cribs entire sentences and phrases from a past one released by the newspaper following his failed re-election bid in 1992. 
The New York Times editorials about the last two elected Republican presidents to die, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, have strong similarities, calling them both fortunate in their foreign policy victories, comparing them positively to the current GOP office-holders, and bemoaning the negative state of politics under the current commanders in chief. 
Former President and World War II Navy pilot George H.W. Bush was one of many veterans to benefit from a service dog during his retirement, and his dog Sully already has his next assignment now that Bush has passed. 