Yes, Taft finished third in the 1912 election trailing Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson which went on later to become the 28th president of the United States in office between 1913-21.
President William Taft was the Republican Party candidate in the 1912 presidential election .
Theodore had previously agreed not to seek a third term in 1908, but when the time can, he regretted his decision , so in 1912, he founded a third party and ran against Taft, the Republican incumbent as well as against Wilson, the Democratic nominee. He managed to split the Republican vote, giving Wilson the election and denying Taft a second term.
Wilson defeated Taft and TR in the Election of 1912.
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because taft chose to move more cautously as president toward reform and regulations and this upset progressives
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In the 1908 presidential election, William Howard Taft's opponent was William Jennings Bryan, a Democrat. In the 1912 election, his opponents were Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt.
William Howard Taft, the incumbent President, was nominated by the Republicans for a second term in 1912.
Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 presidential election defeating Theodore Roosevelt. In the 1912 presidential election Woodrow Wilson received 435 electoral votes and Theodore Roosevelt received 88 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Wilson 6,293,152 and Roosevelt 4,119,207.