Button, Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
date: label: date made
content: 1904
label: Associated Date
content: 1904
notes: label: Description
content: In 1901, just six months into his term as vice president, Theodore Roosevelt became president due to the assassination of President William McKinley. Roosevelt ran for a full term in 1904 and chose Senator Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana to be his vice president. Roosevelt’s victory over the Democratic ticket of Alton Parker and Henry Davis was the first time someone who had ascended to the office upon the death of the president won a term in his own right. Socialist candidates Eugene V. Debs and Benjamin Hanford finished a distant third in 1904, Debs’s second attempt to win the White House.
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content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.315264.1025
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button