United States presidential election of 1912

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United States presidential election of 1912

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Date:: November 5, 1912

Participants:: Eugene V. Debs; Hiram Johnson; Thomas R. Marshall; Theodore Roosevelt; James Sherman; William Howard Taft; Woodrow Wilson

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United States presidential election of 1912, American presidential election held on November 5, 1912, in which Democrat Woodrow Wilson defeated Bull Moose (Progressive) candidate and former Republican president Theodore Roosevelt and Republican incumbent president William Howard Taft. Theodore Roosevelt first came to the presidency in 1901, following the assassination of William McKinley, but won election in his own right in 1904 and proved a very popular chief executive. Shortly after the election of 1904, he announced that he would not be a candidate four years later—though he was so much the idol of the masses that he could easily have ...(100 of 930 words)

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