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The Presidential Election 1908
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The Presidential Election 1908
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Despite his unwavering popularity, Roosevelt decided not to run for a third term in office. William H. Taft was nominated as the Republican candidate, with James R. Sherman as his running mate. The Democratic candidate, for the third time, was William J. Bryan. He began campaigning hard, delivering speeches and... More
The Presidential Election 1912
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The Presidential Election 1912
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As William H. Taft began to abandon some of the progressive policies implemented by Roosevelt, he lost support from the progressive faction of the Republican party. The strength of Taft loyalists, however, meant that the incumbent president was still nominated to run again. In reaction to Taft’s more conservative standpoint,... More
The Presidential Election 1916
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The Presidential Election 1916
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Woodrow Wilson’s progressive approach to his first term had made him popular, and he was easily renominated by the Democrats to run in the 1916 election. Despite his opposition to Taft and formation of the separate Progressive Party in 1912, Roosevelt had put his name forward for Republican candidacy, but... More
The Presidential Election 1920
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The Presidential Election 1920
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By 1920, the nation was ready for a change. During his second presidential term, Woodrow Wilson had been criticized for many of his policies and decisions, and was seen to have led the nation into World War I. There were ongoing disagreements over peace treaties, debate over the League of... More
The Presidential Election 1924
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The Presidential Election 1924
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The former vice president Calvin Coolidge had become president after the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Coolidge had successfully handled the discovery of criminal activity within Harding’s administration (the Teapot Dome Scandal), gaining trust from the electorate. The 1924 election had three key candidates: Coolidge, renominated for... More
The Presidential Election 1928
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The Presidential Election 1928
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The Republicans met in Kansas City where they nominated on the first ballot Herbert Hoover, food administrator during World War I and Secretary of Commerce in the Harding and Coolidge administrations. A cheerless, laconic man, he had studied engineering and worked as a federal administrator. Hoover was also a painfully... More
The Presidential Election 1932
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The Presidential Election 1932
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The prosperity of the 1920s ended abruptly on 29 October 1929 when the stock market crash obliterated the savings and confidence of millions of Americans. As the 1932 campaign approached the Republicans met in a joyless convention in Philadelphia – only a miracle could stave off Hoover’s defeat, and the... More
The Presidential Election 1936
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The Presidential Election 1936
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Two-term governor of Kansas, Alfred ‘Alf’ Landon, was chosen as the Republican candidate to run against incumbent Democratic president Franklin D. Roosevelt (F.D.R.). Roosevelt’s New Deal had achieved some financial stability in the years following the crash of 1929 and the measures he had put in place were popular with... More
The Presidential Election 1940
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The Presidential Election 1940
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Lawyer and former Democratic activist Wendell L. Willkie emerged as a dark-horse Republican presidential candidate after favourites Thomas E. Dewey and Robert A. Taft failed to secure nomination. Roosevelt decided, after some reluctance, to run for a third term, with the less-popular Henry A. Wallace as running mate. In the... More
The Presidential Election 1944
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The Presidential Election 1944
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In the midst of war, the election of 1944 saw more success for the Republican party than in any other recent election, yet they were still unable to unseat Franklin D. Roosevelt and prevent him from an unprecedented fourth term in office. Roosevelt ran for president with senator Harry Truman... More
The Presidential Election 1948
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The Presidential Election 1948
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Franklin D. Roosevelt had died in 1945, less than three months into his fourth term. Harry S. Truman had succeeded him, taking office with little knowledge of the former administration’s plans and promises. He had been successful in ending the war and entering the United Nations, but his popularity was... More
The Presidential Election 1952
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The Presidential Election 1952
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1952 saw Dwight D. Eisenhower, a five-star general and Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, win the Republican nomination, with Richard D. Nixon as running mate. After internal disputes and unrest, the Democrats settled on Adlai E. Stevenson, a candidate with an impressive political past. With a... More