Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 1916. The Democratic ticket of incumbent president Woodrow Wilson and incumbent vice president Thomas Marshall defeated the Republi
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919
Republican Convention, The Coliseum, Chicago
Business advertising postcard exploiting public interest in the election; parts of Wilson's and Hughes' faces can be seen in this image, with the U.S. Capitol building in the background
A Wilson campaign wagon
Charles Evans Hughes
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Charles Evans Hughes was an American politician, academic, and jurist who served as the 11th chief justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was t
1916 United States presidential election
…president Woodrow Wilson and incumbent vice president Thomas Marshall defeated the Republican ticket of former associate justice of the Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes and former vice president Charles Fairbanks by a narrow margin. Wilson was the first incumbent Democrat since 1832 to win re-election to a second…
Hughes in 1931
Hughes at the age of 16
Hughes with his wife and children, c. 1916
Hughes struck up a close friendship with Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.