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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.
In 1912, Wilson was elected president in a three-way race that also included a former president (Theodore Roosevelt) and the incumbent president (William Howard Taft). Wilson won re-election in 1916 over Republican Charles Evans Hughes, a former Supreme Court justice.
Theodore Roosevelt was the Vice president under Former President William McKinley.
In the 1912 election, as an incumbent he ran against former President Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. In the 1908 election which he won, his opponent was William J. Bryan.
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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.
Former US President Theodore Roosevelt shot 11 elephants on his African safari in 1909.
Ethel Roosevelt Derby (1891-1977), daughter of former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.
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FDR was a distant cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt, and he was married to Eleanor Roosevelt (also his distant cousin), who was Teddy's niece.