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In 1904 Alton B. Parker was the Democratic Party candidate and Eugene V. Debs ran on the Socialist Party ticked. Theodore Roosevelt won the election. He ran again in 1912 as a Progressive against Woodrow Wilson of the Democratic Party and William J. Bryan, Republican and Debs as a Socialist. Wilson won.

Also on the ticket was the first negro presidential candidate from Lacrosse, WI by the name of George Erwin Taylor. Taylor was a member of the National Liberty Party. For more information, check out the new book:

For Labor, Race, and Liberty: George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics

By: Bruce L. Mouser

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011

ISBN-10: 0-299-24914-X (Paper); 0-299-24913-1 (Electronic)

ISBN-13: 978-0-299-24914-4 (Paper); 978-0-299-24913-7 (Electronic)

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Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt won reelection in the 1940 presidential election defeating Wendell Wilkie. In the 1940 presidential election Franklin Roosevelt received 449 electoral votes and Wendell Wilkie received 82 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Roosevelt 27,313,041 and Wilkie 22,348,480.

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As the incumbent President in 1904, he was opposed by Alton Parker. As a third-party candidate in 1912, he drew more votes than William Taft, but still lost to Woodrow Wilson.

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He defeated Alton B. Parker in the 1904 presidential election.

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Republican Alf Landon, whom he soundly defeated.

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Kansas Governor Alf Landon

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Howard Taft

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