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Category: History & Society
Date:
November 8, 1904
Participants:
Eugene V. Debs
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Alton B. Parker
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas E. Watson
Henry Gassaway Davis
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United States presidential election of 1904, American presidential election, held on November 8, 1904, in which Republican incumbent Pres. Theodore Roosevelt soundly defeated Democrat Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt’s win marked the first time that a president not originally elected to the office succeeded in retaining the presidency. Roosevelt began preparing for the election not long after assuming the presidency in 1901 upon Pres. William McKinley’s assassination. Roosevelt’s dynamic personality and his vigorous pursuit of a raft of policy goals, such as the expansion of the national park system and the strengthening of American influence abroad, during his initial years in ...(100 of 646 words)

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