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October 30 – James S. Sherman, 27th vice president of the United States from 1909 to 1912 (born 1855) November 25 – Isidor Rayner, U.S. senator from Maryland from 1905 to 1912 (born 1850) November 28 – Walter Benona Sharp, oil pioneer (born 1870) December 18 – Will Carleton, poet (born 1845) December 29 – Philip H. Cooper, admiral ...
Members of the Socialist Party of America had won in multiple elections between the 1908 and 1912 presidential elections with Emil Seidel being elected as the mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Victor L. Berger was elected to the United States House of Representatives. The party claimed that it had 435 members elected to office by 1911, and ...
1912 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1912th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 912th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1912, the ...
1912 – New Mexico and Arizona become states; 1912 – Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low; 1912 – Theodore Roosevelt shot, but not killed, while campaigning for the presidency; October 30, 1912 – Vice President Sherman dies; 1912 – U.S. presidential election: Woodrow Wilson elected president, Thomas R. Marshall, vice
In 1957, Fortune magazine developed a list of the seventy-six wealthiest Americans, which was published in many American newspapers. [6] Jean Paul Getty, when asked his reaction to being named wealthiest American and whether he was worth a billion dollars, said, "You know, if you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars" and then added, "But remember, a billion dollars isn't ...
The 1912 United States elections elected the members of the 63rd United States Congress, occurring during the Fourth Party System.Amidst a division between incumbent Republican president William Howard Taft and former Republican president Theodore Roosevelt, the Democratic Party won the presidency and both chambers of Congress, the first time they accomplished that feat since the 1892 elections.
The 1912–13 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. They were the last U.S. Senate elections before the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, establishing direct elections for all Senate seats.
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