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The 1908 Republican National Convention was held in Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois on June 16 to June 19, 1908. It convened to nominate successors to President Theodore Roosevelt and Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks. U.S. Secretary of War William Howard Taft of Ohio won Roosevelt's endorsement and received the presidential nomination.
Republican. The 1908 United States presidential election was the 31st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1908. Republican Party nominee William Howard Taft defeated three-time Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan. The incumbent in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt. His second term expired at noon on March 4, 1909.
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States. It is the second-oldest extant political party in the United States after its main political rival, the Democratic Party. In 1854, the Republican Party emerged to combat the expansion of slavery into western territories ...
The 1908 United States elections elected the members of the 61st United States Congress, occurring during the Fourth Party System. Oklahoma joined the union during the 61st Congress. Despite the Panic of 1907, Republicans continued to control the presidency and both houses of Congress. In the presidential election, Republican former Secretary ...
Johnson's rags-to-riches story, honesty, reformist credentials, and ability to win in a heavily Republican U.S. state made him popular within the Democratic Party. [3] Johnson ultimately was unable to overcome Bryan, [3] and by the end of June 1908 Bryan had the two-thirds of the delegates needed to win the nomination. [3]
The 1904 Republican National Convention was held in the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on June 21 to June 23, 1904. The popular President Theodore Roosevelt had easily ensured himself of the nomination; a threat had come from the Old Guard favourite Ohio Senator Mark Hanna, the loyal kingmaker in Republican politics, but he ...
TBD. TBD. *Won the election despite losing the popular vote. 1 This convention was known as the National Union Convention. 2 This convention was known as the National Union Republican Convention. 3 Sherman, who had been elected vice president in 1908, died six days before the 1912 election; he was subsequently replaced as Republican vice ...
The 1912 Progressive National Convention at the Chicago Coliseum. The Progressive Party, popularly nicknamed the Bull Moose Party, was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé turned rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft.