Elections

Election of 1912

4 way election: President William Howard Taft-Republican, Woodrow Wilson-Democrat, Theodore Roosevelt-Progressive, Eugene Debs-Socialist. Wilson won by a large majority in electoral votes, and with 42% of the popular vote.

Election of 1904

An election held on November 8th, 1904 between the Incumbent Theodore Roosevelt (R-NY) and Alton B. Parker (D-NY). The election resulted in another Roosevelt victory, with him winning 56.4% of the vote and Parker winning 37.6%.

Election of 1872

Held on Tuesday, November 5, 1872. The Credit Mobillier scandal exposed Liberal Republicans break with Ulysses Grant; Grant defeats Horace Greeley for the presidency.

Election of 1888

Issues: Tariff reduction, Spoils system Parties: Republican, Democratic, Prohibition, Union Labor Candidates: Benjamin Harrison (R), Grover Cleveland (D), Clinton Fisk (P), Alson Streeter (UL) Impact: The campaign in 1888 set a higher bar of corruption. Senator Matthew Quay (PA) bribed voters, the votes from which have been theorized as the cause for the winning margin. Cleveland won the popular votes, but failed to carry Pennsylvania or even his home state of New York.

Election of 1908

Republican William Howard Taft vs Democratic William Jennings Bryan. Taft won because he was good friend and Secretary of War under Roosevelt. Taft was Roosevelt's successor

Election of 1896

Republican William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in 1896. Bryan was the nominee of the Democrats, the Populist Party, and the Silver Republicans.Economic issues, including bimetallism, the gold standard, Free Silver, and the tariff, were crucial.

Election of 1876

Rutherford B. Hayes ran against Samuel J. Tilden in the election of 1876. Initially, Tilden defeated Hayes with 184 electoral votes 165, but there were 20 votes, enough to change the victor, still undecided. The unresolved votes led to great dispute between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, eventually ending in the compromise of 1877 through which, Hayes won the election and troops were removed from the South, ending Reconstruction.

Election of 1880

The United States presidential election of 1880 was the 24th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1880. It was largely seen as a referendum on the end of Reconstruction in Southern states carried out by the Republicans. There were no other pressing issues of the day except for tariff policy, with the Republicans supporting higher tariffs and the Democrats supporting lower ones. James A. Garfield was elected President.

Election of 1884

The United States presidential election of 1884 featured excessive mudslinging and personal acrimony. On November 4, 1884, New York Governor Grover Cleveland narrowly defeated Republican former United States Senator James G. Blaine of Maine to become the first Democrat elected President of the United States since the election of 1856, before the American Civil War. New York decided the election, awarding Governor Cleveland the state's 36 electors by a margin of just 1,047 of 1,167,003 votes cast.

Election of 1892

The United States presidential election of 1892 was held on November 8, 1892. Former President Grover Cleveland ran for re-election against the incumbent President Benjamin Harrison also running for re-election. Cleveland defeated Harrison, thus becoming the only person in US history to be elected to a second, non-consecutive presidential term. Cleveland, who had won the popular vote against Harrison in 1888, lost the electoral vote which cost him re-election. He won both the popular and electoral vote in the rematch election.

Election of 1900

The United States presidential election of 1900 was the 29th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1900. The election was a re-match of the 1896 race between Republican candidate and incumbent President William McKinley and his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan. The Republican Convention chose New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt as McKinley's running mate, since Vice-President Garret Hobart had died from heart failure in 1899. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish-American War for control of the Philippines helped McKinley to score a decisive victory, while Bryan's anti-imperialist stance and continued support for bimetallism attracted only limited support.