Object Details
- Description
- 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.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1912
- Object Name
- button
