William Howard Taft.
He got the votes. Today's Republican Party is different from Truman's time. Even a little as 30-40 years ago the Republican Party was more moderate. Reagan wouldn't be elected today because he would be considered liberal by the Republicans in office today. Both parties have lost the focus of working for the common good of the country.
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt, when he ran against his Republican successor William Howard Taft in 1912. The Progressive Party was nicknamed the Bull Moose Party. The schism among Republicans allowed Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, to win.
Had stolen the Republican Nomination from Roosevelt who had then walked out with his supporters and ran under the Progressive Party Platform
William Howard Taft.
Taft
He was the republican presidential candidate in the election of 1912... A+... =)..
Woodrow Wilson
President William Taft was the Republican Party candidate in the 1912 presidential election .
The Republican candidate for president in 1920 was Warren G. Harding. Harding won that election by defeating Democrat James M. Cox. President Harding served as the 29th President from 1921 until his death on August 2, 1923.
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.
Roosevelt was a candidate for the Progressive's Bull Moose Party.
William Howard Taft was the incumbent Republican President and was nominated for a second term by his party in 1912. Teddy Roosevelt who started off as a Republican left and started a new party. This cost Taft the re-election and put a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson in as President.
Woodrow Wilson
In a way this is what happened in 1912. Former President Theodore Roosevelt, who was elected as a Republican Vice President in 1900 and as a Republican President in 1904, tried to get the nomination in 1912, but when he failed to get it, he ran as a third party candidate against the incumbent Republican president William Howard Taft. Both were defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
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.