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2 days ago · He founded the new Progressive Party and ran in the 1912 election, and the split allowed the Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson to win the election. Following the defeat, Roosevelt led a four-month expedition to the Amazon basin, where he nearly died of tropical disease. During World War I, he criticized Wilson for keeping the country out of the ...
- Edith Carow
Edith Kermit Roosevelt (née Carow; August 6, 1861 –...
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- Theodore Roosevelt Sr
Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (September 22, 1831 – February 9,...
- William McKinley
William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was...
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1 day ago · The election of the president and the vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College. [note 1] These electors then ...
May 16, 2024 · Bull Moose Party, U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912; the formal name and general objectives of the party were revived 12 years later. Learn more about the Bull Moose Party in this article.
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May 21, 2024 · Electoral College, the system by which the president and vice president of the United States are chosen. It was devised by the framers of the United States Constitution to provide a method of election that was feasible, desirable, and consistent with a republican form of government.
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May 4, 2024 · The 1912 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president .
5 days ago · Elected with McKinley, Roosevelt chafed at his powerless office until September 14, 1901, when McKinley died after being shot by an assassin and he became president. Six weeks short of his 43rd birthday, Roosevelt was the youngest person ever to enter the presidency.
May 22, 2024 · The 1912 election was one of those that defied the typical two-party formulation we know of in American politics, and this was only possible because the leader of the third party himself had been a popular president: Theodore Roosevelt. His handpicked successor, William Howard Taft, had turned out to be more conservative than he expected.
