Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 1908. Republican Party nominee William Howard Taft defeated threetime Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan. Incumbent Presiden
William Howard Taft, Bain bw photo portrait, 1908
Unsuccessful 1908
Theodore Roosevelt, the incumbent president in 1908, whose second and only full term expired on March 4, 1909
The balding "Boy Orator of the Platte" delivers a speech.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1912. The Democratic ticket of governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey and governor Thomas Marshall of Indiana defeated the Republica
1908 United States presidential election
…of the Solid South. Taft's triumph gave Republicans their fourth consecutive presidential election victory. The Republican Party lost the presidency four years later to the Democrats, due to a party split between Taft and Roosevelt. Two third-party candidates, Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party and Eugene W…
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William Howard Taft Portrait
Eugene Debs portrait
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