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Taft followed custom and remained in Washington, but Roosevelt went to Chicago to run his campaign [154] and told his supporters in a speech, "we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord". [155] [156] Taft had won over Root, who agreed to run for temporary chairman of the convention, and the delegates elected Root over Roosevelt's ...
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[2] [13] In the end, Taft defeated Bryan by 321 electoral votes to 162, [14] carrying all but three states outside the Democratic Solid South. He also won the popular vote by a comfortable margin, receiving 7,675,320 votes (51.6 percent) to Bryan's 6,412,294 (43.1 percent); Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs won 420,793 votes (2.8 percent ...
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American lawyer, orator, and politician. He was a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections.
Taft initially served as a state and federal judge, and as governor of the Philippines beginning in 1900. In 1904 Theodore Roosevelt made him Secretary of War. Taft declined repeated offers to become a Supreme Court justice. He was Roosevelt's hand-picked successor in 1908, and easily defeated William Jennings Bryan for the presidency.
Bryan won forty-eight counties in the new state of Oklahoma. The most important increase in the number of counties carried by Bryan was in the West South Central section, in part due to the vote of newly admitted Oklahoma. [42] Of the 2,858 counties making returns, Taft won in 1,494 (52.27%) while Bryan carried 1,355 (47.41%).
Bryan received his preparatory education there, subsequently becoming a student at the University of Virginia and later taking his degree in law at Columbian University (now George Washington University), Washington, D.C. [citation needed] From 1879 to 1883 he practiced his profession in Colorado [citation needed] and also took an active part ...
Taft defeated Bryan by a two-to-one (321 to 162) margin in the Electoral College and by a 52% to 43.5% margin in the popular vote. [7] Bryan did worse in 1908 than he did in both 1896 and 1900, carrying only the South, Oklahoma , Colorado , and Nevada (Bryan also won 6 of 8 electors in Maryland while losing the state to Taft by less than 0.30% ...