progressive party
The symbol of Roosevelt's Progressive third party was the Bull Moose.
Teddy Roosevelt- Bull Moose Party, 1912
After Theodore Roosevelt failed to win the Republican Party Presidential Nomination in 1912, he formed the Progressive Party, which also became known as the Bull Moose Party because the Bull Moose was a nickname of Theodore Roosevelt.
Bull Moose
It was called both the Progressive Party and the Bull Moose Party.
Theodore Roosevelt
When he ran for President, Theodore Roosevelt was the nominee of the Republican Party in 1904 and the Progressive Party in 1912. 1912 was the last time to date that the Republican Party Presidential Nominee finished third.
he had always regarded the republican party as too conservative
Theodore Roosevelt decided to run again. Taft refused to give up the Republican nomination, so Theodore Roosevelt ran on the Third Party Ticket of the Bull Moose Party,officially known as the Progressive Party.
The party was the Progressive Party ( better known as the Bull Moose Party ) which ran ex- Republican president Theodore Roosevelt against the Republican candidate Wm. H. Taft and the Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson. Together Taft and Roosevelt got enough votes to win, but separately Wilson was the winner. 1912 was the only election in US history in which a third party candidate finished second.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt was a candidate for the Progressive's Bull Moose Party.