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United States presidential election of 1912
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The election results of 1912 Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt, left, and William Howard Taft, right, both in formal coats, stand side by side in front of a doorway in 1912. William Howard Taft Portrait of Woodrow Wilson in a suit, wearing glasses and a tie, facing slightly to the left with a neutral expression.
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United States presidential election of 1912

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United States presidential election of 1912, American presidential election held on November 5, 1912, in which Democrat Woodrow Wilson defeated Bull Moose (Progressive) candidate and former Republican president Theodore Roosevelt and Republican incumbent president William Howard Taft. Theodore Roosevelt first came to the presidency in 1901, following the assassination of William McKinley, but won election in his own right in 1904 and proved a very popular chief executive. Shortly after the election of 1904, he...

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