Button, William McKinley, 1900
date: label: date made
content: 1900
notes: label: Description
content: President William McKinley needed a new running mate for his re-election campaign in 1900 because his first vice president, Garret Hobart, had died in office. McKinley chose Theodore Roosevelt, governor of New York and hero of the Spanish-American War. The Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan who had lost to McKinley in 1896 also chose a new running mate in 1900, Adlai Stevenson. McKinley defeated both Bryan and third-party candidate Eugene V. Debs who ran with Job Harriman on the Social Democratic Party ticket.
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: 2015.0200.154
label: accession number
content: 2015.0200
label: accession number
content: 2015.0200.154
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in; 5.08 cm