Button, William Howard Taft, 1912
date: label: date made
content: 1912
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
topic: label: used
content: Political Campaigns
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0200.170
label: accession number
content: 2015.0200
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0200.170
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content: button