Health reform was an issue raised by Theodore Roosevelt's call for national health insurance, in his bid in the election of 1912
Republican Theodore Roosevelt, distant cousin of President Franklin D Roosevelt who died in 1945.
February 21, 1912 was the date that Roosevelt said, " My hat is in the ring", meaning he was running for president.
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Theodore Roosevelt was defeated as a candidate for President when he formed the Progressive's Bull Moose Party in 1912.
Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest American to become President. He was 42.
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Theodore Roosevelt was the Republican candidate for Vice President in 1900 and for President in 1904, and he was the Progressive Party candidate for President in 1912. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the Democratic Party Candidate for Vice President in 1920 and for President in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944.
He ran for president in 1904 and won, and again in 1912, but lost.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 1882 to April 1945) was the 32nd President of the United States. Roosevelt was re-elected for his second of four terms in 1912 due to becoming more consistently progressive.
Theodore Roosevelt started the Progressive Party.
Teddy Roosevelt- Bull Moose Party, 1912