Button, William Howard Taft, 1912

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Description
The election of 1912 was a four-way contest between incumbent president William Howard Taft (Republican), New Jersey governor Woodrow Wilson (Democrat), former president Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), and labor activist Eugene V. Debs (Socialist). Several Taft items from this campaign promoted his re-election as the safe choice. Voters apparently disagreed as he finished behind both Wilson and Roosevelt, the only sitting president seeking re-election to finish third. Debs was a distant fourth.
1912
ID Number
2015.0200.170
accession number
2015.0200
catalog number
2015.0200.170
Object Name
button
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Government, Politics, and Reform
American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
National Museum of American History
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Political Campaigns
Record ID
nmah_1830001
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-b29d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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