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Roosevelt was a candidate for the Progressive's Bull Moose Party.
In the U. S. Presidential Election of 1912, Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt received 88 votes while Republican Party candidate and incumbent President William Howard Taft received eight votes. Democratic Party candidate Woodrow Wilson won with 435 votes.
Theodore Roosevelt started the Progressive Party.
Democratic Party candidate Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 presidential election defeating Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party") candidate Theodore Roosevelt and Republican Party candidate incumbent President William Taft.
The vice presidential candidate is often referred to as the running mate of the presidential candidate during the campaign.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt created the Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party") after he failed to receive the Republic nomination in the 1912 presidential election. Theodore Roosevelt received 88 electoral votes and 4,119,207 (27%) of the popular votes.
Woodrow Wilson (a Democrat) won the United States presidential election of 1912, defeating the Progressive Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt's running mate was Hiram Johnson.
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The candidate for vice-president is nominated at the same national convention that nominates the presidential candidate.
Theodore Roosevelt was the Republican Party candidate in 1904 and the Progressive Party candidate in 1912. That was the last time the candidate of a party other than the Republican Party or the Democratic Party came in 2nd in a U. S. Presidential election.
Any American can make campaign contributions to a presidential candidate.
The candidate for vice-president is nominated at the same national convention that nominates the presidential candidate.