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United States presidential election of 1904
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John M. Cunningham
John M. Cunningham graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2000 with a B.A. in English. He worked at Britannica from 2004 to 2018. A student of pop culture and the arts, he wrote about popular (and semipopular)...
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United States presidential election of 1904, American presidential election, held on November 8, 1904, in which Republican incumbent Pres. Theodore Roosevelt soundly defeated Democrat Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt’s win marked the first time that a president not originally elected to the office succeeded in retaining the presidency. Roosevelt began preparing for the election not long after assuming the presidency in 1901 upon Pres. William McKinley’s assassination. Roosevelt’s dynamic personality and his vigorous pursuit of a...

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