Plate, William McKinley, 1900
name: label: associated person
content: McKinley, William
label: associated person
content: Roosevelt, Theodore
notes: label: Description
content: Tin plates and trays were common campaign items in the early twentieth century. This one promoted incumbent president William McKinley and his new running mate, New York governor Theodore Roosevelt, the Republican nominees in 1900. (McKinley’s first vice president, Garret Hobart, had died in office in 1899.) McKinley and Roosevelt defeated Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan and his running mate former vice president Adlai Stevenson. 1900 was the second consecutive election Bryan lost to McKinley and the first year Eugene V. Debs ran for president, this time on the Social Democratic Party ticket with vice presidential nominee Job Harriman.
topic: label: general subject association
content: Political Campaigns
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.227739.1900.X02
label: catalog number
content: 227739.1900.X02
label: accession number
content: 227739
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Plate
label: Object Type
content: plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in; 1.27 cm x 26.035 cm