1904 United States presidential election
30th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
The 1904 United States presidential election occurred on November 8, 1904. It was the 30th election in the history of the United States. The election was won by incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, who had been president since the death of William McKinley in 1901.
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476 members of the Electoral College 239 electoral votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 65.5%[1] ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ElectoralCollege1904.svg Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Roosevelt/Fairbanks, blue denotes those won by Parker/Davis. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This election was between incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won the election with 336 electoral votes. Parker got only 140 electoral votes.
Nominations
changeRepublican Party
change- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States from New York (1901-1909) (Nominee) (ran unopposed)
Democratic Party
changeNominee
change- Alton B. Parker, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals (1898-1904) (Nominee)
Unsuccessfully ran for Nomination
change- William Randolph Hearst, Congressman of New York (1903-1907)
- Francis Cockrell, Senator of Missouri (1875-1905)
- Richard Olney, former U.S Secretary of State from Massachusetts (1895-1897)
- Edward C. Wall, former Chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin (1890-1896)
- George Gray, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1899-1914)
- Nelson A. Miles, former Commanding General of the US Army and Military Governor of Puerto Rico (1895-1903; 1898)
Declined to run
change- Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States from New York (1885-1889; 1893-1897)
- William Jennings Bryan, former Congressman of Nebraska (1891-1895) and Nominee in 1896 and 1900
- John Sharp Williams, Congressman of Mississippi (1893-1909)
References
change- ↑ "National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present". United States Election Project. CQ Press.