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American presidential election, 1916
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Category: History & Society
Date:
November 7, 1916
Participants:
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Charles Evans Hughes
Thomas R. Marshall
Woodrow Wilson
Allan L. Benson
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United States presidential election of 1916, American presidential election held on November 7, 1916, in which Democratic incumbent Woodrow Wilson defeated Republican Charles Evan Hughes in the electoral college 277–254. Though his election in 1912 was largely attributable to the formation of the Bull Moose Party (officially, the Progressive Party) from the Republican Party’s more liberal elements and the subsequent split in voting, Wilson’s first term was marked by a raft of popular progressive legislation that left him well positioned to win a second term. The Underwood Tariff Act of 1913 reduced the rates set by the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act ...(100 of 911 words)

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