1904 United States presidential election

The 1904 United States presidential election occurred on November 8, 1904. It was the 30th election in the history of the United States. The election was won by incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, who had been president since the death of William McKinley in 1901.

This election was between incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won the election with 336 electoral votes. Parker got only 140 electoral votes.

This would be the second of six elections in the history of the United States where both major candidates share the same home state, the first being the 1860 election

 Nominations 

 Republican Party 
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 Presidential 
 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States from New York (1901-1909) (Nominee)
 Mark Hanna, U.S. senator and chairman of the Republican National Committee from Ohio (1897-1904, 1896-1904) (Died on February 15, 1904)

 Vice Presidential 
 Charles W. Fairbanks, U.S. senator from Indiana (1897-1905) (Vice presidential nominee)

 Democratic Party 

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 Presidential 
 Alton B. Parker, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals (1898-1904) (Nominee)
 William Randolph Hearst, Congressman of New York (1903-1907)
 Francis Cockrell, U.S. senator from Missouri (1875-1905)
 Richard Olney, former U.S Secretary of State from Massachusetts (1895-1897)
 Edward C. Wall, former Chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin (1890-1896)
 George Gray, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1899-1914)
 John Sharp Williams, Congressman of Mississippi (1893-1909) (Declined to run)
 Robert E. Pattison, 17th and 19th Governor of Pennsylvania (1883-1887, 1891-1895)
 George B. McClellan Jr., 93rd Mayor of New York City from New York (1904-1909) (Son of 1864 nominee George B. McClellan)
 Nelson A. Miles, former Commanding General of the US Army and Military Governor of Puerto Rico (1895-1903; 1898)
 Charles A. Towne, former U.S. senator from Minnesota (1900-1901)
 Arthur P. Gorman, U.S. senator from Maryland (1881-1899, 1903-1906)
 Bird Sim Coler, 23rd New York City Comptroller (1898-1901) and unsuccessful nominee for Governor in 1902
 William Jennings Bryan, former Congressman of Nebraska (1891-1895) and Nominee in 1896 and 1900 (Declined on Jan. 10, 1904)
 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States from New York (1885-1889; 1893-1897) (Declined to run)

 Vice Presidential 

 Henry G. Davis, former U.S. senator from West Virginia (1871-1883) (Vice presidential nominee)
 James R. Williams, Congressman from Illionis (1889-1895, 1899-1905)
 George Turner, former U.S. senator from Washington (1897-1903)
 William A. Harris, former U.S. senator from Kansas (1897-1903)

 References 

Category:United States presidential elections
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Category:1900s elections