Bettmann/ Corbis William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt had once been friends. But when the Republican Party met in Chicago to choose its presidential candidate in June 1912, the nomination ...

The first page of Theodore Roosevelt's speech that was damaged when ... But his disappointment in the performance of William Howard Taft, his chosen successor, was so great that in 1912 he formed ...

He had garnered six million votes, but together Taft and Roosevelt had polled a million ... was president because the Republican Party had split.

but drama could not outweigh the deadly split in the Republican party. On election day, Roosevelt bested Taft but lost to Wilson by more than two million votes. Theodore Roosevelt's last campaign ...

William Howard Taft was the natural successor to Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he had a very warm working relationship (one journalist wrote that T.A.F.T. stood for “Take Advice From Theodore.”) He ...

In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt named him Secretary of War, and he made it clear that Taft would get his endorsement ... Party’s nomination. The move split the Republican vote, and ...