Electoral history of Theodore Roosevelt
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Electoral history of Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

, 26th President of the United States, 25th Vice President of the United States
Vice President of the United States
The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...

 and 33rd Governor of New York
Governor of New York
The Governor of the State of New York is the chief executive of the State of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military and naval forces. The officeholder is afforded the courtesy title of His/Her...


New York gubernatorial race, 1898

New York gubernatorial election, 1898
New York gubernatorial election, 1898
The 1898 New York state election was held on November 8, 1898, to elect the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer and the State Engineer, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York...

  • Theodore Roosevelt/Timothy L. Woodruff
    Timothy L. Woodruff
    thumb|Timothy L Woodruff circa 1900Timothy Lester Woodruff was an American politician.-Life:...

     (R) - 661,715 (49.09%)
  • Augustus Van Wyck
    Augustus Van Wyck
    Augustus Van Wyck was a Supreme Court Justice of Brooklyn, New York. In 1898 he received the Democratic Nomination for New York State governor against the Republican choice, Theodore Roosevelt.- Background :...

    /Elliott Danforth
    Elliott Danforth
    Elliott Danforth was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

     (D) - 643,921 (47.77%)
  • Benjamin Hanford
    Benjamin Hanford
    Benjamin Hanford was an American politician during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He made two unsuccessful runs for the post of Vice President of the United States, as Eugene Debs' running mate as a candidate of the Social Democratic Party, in 1904 and 1908.-Early life:Benjamin Hanford...

     (Socialist) - 23,860 (1.77%)
  • John Kline (Prohibition) - 18,383 (1.36%)

Vice Presidential race, 1900

1900 Republican National Convention
1900 Republican National Convention
The 1900 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held June 19 to June 21 in the Exposition Auditorium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Exposition Auditorium was located south of the University of Pennsylvania, and the later Convention Hall was constructed along the...

 (Vice Presidential tally):
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 925 (99.89%)
  • Abstaining - 1 (0.11%)


United States presidential election, 1900
United States presidential election, 1900
The United States presidential election of 1900 was a re-match of the 1896 race between Republican President William McKinley and his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish–American War helped McKinley to score a decisive...

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  • William McKinley
    William McKinley
    William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...

    /Theodore Roosevelt (R) - 7,228,864 (51.6%) and 292 electoral votes (65.32%, 28 states carried)
  • William Jennings Bryan
    William Jennings Bryan
    William Jennings Bryan was an American politician in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States...

    /Adlai E. Stevenson I (D) - 6,370,932 (45.5%) and 155 electoral votes (34.68%, 17 states carried)
  • John Granville Woolley/Henry Brewer Metcalf (Prohibition) - 210,864 (1.5%)
  • Eugene V. Debs
    Eugene V. Debs
    Eugene Victor Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World , and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States...

    /Job Harriman
    Job Harriman
    Job Harriman was an ordained minister who later became an agnostic and a socialist. In 1900 he ran for Vice President of the United States along with Eugene Debs on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America. He later twice ran for mayor of Los Angeles, drawing considerable attention and support...

     (Socialist) - 87,945 (0.6%)
  • Wharton Barker/Ignatius L. Donnelly (Populist) - 50,989 (0.4%)
  • Joseph Francis Maloney/Valentine Remmel
    Valentine Remmel
    Valentine Remmel was a member of the Socialist Labor Party or SLP from Pittsburgh who was nominated for Vice President of the United States on the SLP ticket in 1900. Before that, he had been a candidate for the Presidential nomination, but was defeated by his later running mate, Joseph Malloney...

     (Socialist Labor) - 40,943 (0.3%)
  • Others - 6,889 (0.0%)

Presidential races, 1904-1916

1904 Republican National Convention
1904 Republican National Convention
The 1904 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held in the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on June 21 to June 23, 1904....

 (Presidential tally)
  • Theodore Roosevelt (inc.) - 994 (100.00%)


United States presidential election, 1904
United States presidential election, 1904
The United States presidential election of 1904 held on November 8, 1904, resulted in the election to a full term for President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt had succeeded to the presidency upon the assassination of William McKinley. The Republican Party unanimously nominated him for president at...

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  • Theodore Roosevelt/Charles W. Fairbanks
    Charles W. Fairbanks
    Charles Warren Fairbanks was a Senator from Indiana and the 26th Vice President of the United States ....

     (R) - 7,630,457 (56.4%) and 336 electoral votes (70.59%, 32 states carried)
  • Alton B. Parker
    Alton B. Parker
    Alton Brooks Parker was an American lawyer, judge and the Democratic nominee for U.S. president in the 1904 elections.-Life:...

    /Henry G. Davis
    Henry G. Davis
    Henry Gassaway Davis was a self-made millionaire and U.S. Senator from West Virginia. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904. His brother was U.S...

     (D) - 5,083,880 (37.6%) and 140 electoral votes (29.41%, 13 states carried)
  • Eugene V. Debs
    Eugene V. Debs
    Eugene Victor Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World , and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States...

    /Benjamin Hanford
    Benjamin Hanford
    Benjamin Hanford was an American politician during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He made two unsuccessful runs for the post of Vice President of the United States, as Eugene Debs' running mate as a candidate of the Social Democratic Party, in 1904 and 1908.-Early life:Benjamin Hanford...

     (Socialist) - 402,810 (3.0%)
  • Silas C. Swallow
    Silas C. Swallow
    Silas Comfort Swallow was a United States Methodist preacher and prohibitionist politician.-Namesake:He was presumably named after Methodist preacher Silas Comfort , a courageous anti-slavery member of the Genesee, Oneida and Missouri Conferences. While serving in St...

    /George W. Carroll (Prohibition) - 259,102 (1.9%)
  • Thomas E. Watson
    Thomas E. Watson
    Thomas Edward "Tom" Watson was an American politician, newspaper editor, and writer from Georgia. In the 1890s Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an agrarian political viewpoint while attacking business, bankers, railroads, Democratic President Grover...

    /Thomas Tibbles
    Thomas Tibbles
    Thomas Henry Tibbles was a journalist and author from Omaha, Nebraska who became an activist for Native American rights in the United States during the late nineteenth century.- Life :Born in Ohio, he moved to Illinois with his parents...

     (Populist) - 114,070 (0.8%)
  • Charles Hunter Corregan
    Charles Hunter Corregan
    Charles Hunter Corregan was an American printer and politician.-Life:In 1898, he ran for New York Attorney General on the Socialist Labor ticket, but was defeated....

    /William Wesley Cox
    William Wesley Cox
    William Wesley Cox was a Presidential, Vice Presidential, and perennial U.S. Senate candidate of the Socialist Labor Party of America ....

     (Socialist Labor) - 33,454 (0.2%)
  • Others - 1,229 (0.0%)


1908 Republican National Convention
1908 Republican National Convention
The 1908 Republican National Convention, the fourteenth presidential nominating convention of the Republican Party of the United States, was held in Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois on June 16 to June 19, 1908. It convened to nominate a successor to the popular GOP President, Theodore Roosevelt...

 (Presidential tally):
  • William Howard Taft
    William Howard Taft
    William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

     - 702 (71.63%)
  • Philander C. Knox
    Philander C. Knox
    Philander Chase Knox was an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Attorney General , a Senator from Pennsylvania and Secretary of State ....

     - 68 (6.94%)
  • Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

     - 67 (6.84%)
  • Joseph Gurney Cannon
    Joseph Gurney Cannon
    Joseph Gurney Cannon was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such...

     - 58 (5.92%)
  • Charles W. Fairbanks
    Charles W. Fairbanks
    Charles Warren Fairbanks was a Senator from Indiana and the 26th Vice President of the United States ....

     - 40 (4.08%)
  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr. , was an American Republican politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was also a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin...

     - 25 (2.55%)
  • Joseph B. Foraker
    Joseph B. Foraker
    Joseph Benson Foraker was a Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 37th Governor of Ohio from 1886 to 1890.-Early life:...

     - 16 (1.63%)
  • Theodore Roosevelt (inc.) - 3 (0.31%)
  • Abstaining - 1 (0.10%)


1911 New York Republican Senate caucus:
  • Chauncey M. DePew (inc.) - 58 (87.88%)
  • E. H. Butler - 2 (3.03%)
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 2 (3.03%)
  • L. A. Grace - 1 (1.52%)
  • Seth Low
    Seth Low
    Seth Low , born in Brooklyn, New York, was an American educator and political figure who served as mayor of Brooklyn, as President of Columbia University, as diplomatic representative of the United States, and as Mayor of New York City...

     - 1 (1.52%)
  • George L. Meade - 1 (1.52%)
  • Andrew D. White - 1 (1.52%)


1912 Republican presidential primaries:
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 1,183,238 (51.14%)
  • William Howard Taft
    William Howard Taft
    William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

     (inc.) - 800,441 (34.59%)
  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr. , was an American Republican politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was also a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin...

     - 327,357 (14.15%)
  • Robert G. Ross - 605 (0.03%)
  • Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

     - 13 (0.00%)
  • Others - 2,193 (0.10%)


1912 Republican National Convention
1912 Republican National Convention
The 1912 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held at the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, from June 18 to June 22, 1912. The party nominated William Howard Taft from Ohio for re-election as President of the United States and James S...

 (Presidential tally):
  • William Howard Taft
    William Howard Taft
    William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

     (inc.) - 556 (51.58%)
  • Abstaining - 355 (32.93%)
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 107 (9.93%)
  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr. , was an American Republican politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was also a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin...

     - 41 (3.80%)
  • Albert B. Cummins
    Albert B. Cummins
    Albert Baird Cummins was the 18th Governor of Iowa, U.S. Senator and two-time presidential candidate. Cummins was perhaps the most influential leader in Iowa politics in the first quarter of the 20th century...

     - 17 (1.58%)
  • Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

     - 2 (0.19%)


1912 Progressive National Convention
Progressive Party (United States, 1912)
The Progressive Party of 1912 was an American political party. It was formed after a split in the Republican Party between President William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt....

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  • Theodore Roosevelt - unamiously


United States presidential election, 1912
United States presidential election, 1912
The United States presidential election of 1912 was a rare four-way contest. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination, he called...

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  • Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson
    Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

    /Thomas R. Marshall
    Thomas R. Marshall
    Thomas Riley Marshall was an American Democratic politician who served as the 28th Vice President of the United States under Woodrow Wilson...

     (D) - 6,296,284 (41.8%) and 435 electoral votes (81.92%, 40 states carried)
  • Theodore Roosevelt/Hiram W. Johnson (Progressive) - 4,122,721 (27.4%) and 88 electoral votes (16.57%, 6 states carried)
  • William Howard Taft
    William Howard Taft
    William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

    /Nicholas M. Butler
    Nicholas M. Butler
    Nicholas Murray Butler was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize...

     (R) - 3,486,242 (23.2%) and 8 electoral votes (1.51%, 2 states carried)
  • Eugene V. Debs
    Eugene V. Debs
    Eugene Victor Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World , and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States...

    /Emil Seidel
    Emil Seidel
    Emil Seidel was the mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912. He was the first Socialist mayor of a major city in the United States, and ran as the Vice Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America in the 1912 presidential election....

     (Socialist) - 901,551 (6.0%)
  • Eugene Wilder Chafin/Aaron Sherman Watkins (Prohibition) - 208,156 (1.4%)
  • Arthur Elmer Reimer/August Gilhaus (Socialist Labor) - 29,324 (0.2%)
  • Others - 4,556 (0.0%)


1916 Progressive presidential primaries:
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 5,152 (71.12%)
  • Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

     - 10 (0.14%)
  • Lawrence Sherman - 10 (0.14%)
  • Others - 2,072 (28.60%)


1916 Republican presidential primaries
United States presidential election, 1916
The United States presidential election of 1916 took place while Europe was embroiled in World War I. Public sentiment in the still neutral United States leaned towards the British and French forces, due to the harsh treatment of civilians by the German Army, which had invaded and occupied large...

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  • Unpledged delegates - 455,765 (23.60%)
  • Martin G. Brumbaugh - 233,100 (12.07%)
  • Albert B. Cummins
    Albert B. Cummins
    Albert Baird Cummins was the 18th Governor of Iowa, U.S. Senator and two-time presidential candidate. Cummins was perhaps the most influential leader in Iowa politics in the first quarter of the 20th century...

     - 191,951 (9.94%)
  • Charles W. Fairbanks
    Charles W. Fairbanks
    Charles Warren Fairbanks was a Senator from Indiana and the 26th Vice President of the United States ....

     - 176,080 (9.12%)
  • Lawrence Sherman - 155,945 (8.07%)
  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr. , was an American Republican politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was also a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin...

     - 133,476 (6.91%)
  • Henry Ford
    Henry Ford
    Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry...

     - 131,965 (6.83%)
  • Theodore Elijah Burton - 122,169 (6.33%)
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 83,739 (4.34%)
  • Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

     - 82,530 (4.27%)
  • William Alden Smith
    William Alden Smith
    William Alden Smith was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan.-Early career:Smith was born in Dowagiac, Michigan and attended the common schools. He moved with his parents to Grand Rapids in 1872, where he attended school, sold popcorn, and was a newsboy and messenger boy...

     - 77,872 (4.03%)
  • Henry D. Estabrook - 30,676 (1.59%)
  • William Grant Webster - 17,927 (0.93%)
  • William O. Simpson - 14,365 (0.74%)


1916 Progressive National Convention:
  • Theodore Roosevelt - unamiously


1916 Republican National Convention
1916 Republican National Convention
The 1916 Republican National Convention was held in Chicago, Illinois at the Chicago Coliseum, from June 7 to June 10, 1916. It nominated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes of New York for president and former Vice President Charles Fairbanks of Indiana for a return to the vice presidency....

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1st ballot:
  • Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

     - 253.5
  • John W. Weeks
    John W. Weeks
    John Wingate Weeks was an American politician in the Republican Party. He served as a United States Representative for Massachusetts from 1905 to 1913, as a United States Senator from 1913 to 1919, and as Secretary of War from 1921 to 1925.-Life and career:Weeks was born and raised in Lancaster,...

     - 105
  • Elihu Root
    Elihu Root
    Elihu Root was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise man", who shuttled between high-level government positions in Washington, D.C...

     - 103
  • Albert B. Cummins
    Albert B. Cummins
    Albert Baird Cummins was the 18th Governor of Iowa, U.S. Senator and two-time presidential candidate. Cummins was perhaps the most influential leader in Iowa politics in the first quarter of the 20th century...

     - 85
  • Charles W. Fairbanks
    Charles W. Fairbanks
    Charles Warren Fairbanks was a Senator from Indiana and the 26th Vice President of the United States ....

     - 74.5
  • Theodore E. Burton
    Theodore E. Burton
    Theodore Elijah Burton was a Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senate....

     - 77.5
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 65
  • Philander C. Knox
    Philander C. Knox
    Philander Chase Knox was an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Attorney General , a Senator from Pennsylvania and Secretary of State ....

     - 36
  • Henry Ford
    Henry Ford
    Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry...

     - 32
  • Martin G. Brumbaugh - 29
  • Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. - 25
  • Others - 25


2nd ballot:
  • Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

     - 328.5
  • Elihu Root
    Elihu Root
    Elihu Root was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise man", who shuttled between high-level government positions in Washington, D.C...

     - 98.5
  • Charles W. Fairbanks
    Charles W. Fairbanks
    Charles Warren Fairbanks was a Senator from Indiana and the 26th Vice President of the United States ....

     - 88.5
  • Albert W. Cummins - 85
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 81
  • John W. Weeks
    John W. Weeks
    John Wingate Weeks was an American politician in the Republican Party. He served as a United States Representative for Massachusetts from 1905 to 1913, as a United States Senator from 1913 to 1919, and as Secretary of War from 1921 to 1925.-Life and career:Weeks was born and raised in Lancaster,...

     - 79
  • Theodore E. Burton
    Theodore E. Burton
    Theodore Elijah Burton was a Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senate....

     - 76.5
  • Philander C. Knox
    Philander C. Knox
    Philander Chase Knox was an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Attorney General , a Senator from Pennsylvania and Secretary of State ....

     - 36
  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr. , was an American Republican politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was also a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin...

     - 25
  • Others - 13


3rd ballot:
  • Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

     - 949.5
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 18.5
  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
    Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr. , was an American Republican politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was also a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin...

     - 3
  • John W. Weeks
    John W. Weeks
    John Wingate Weeks was an American politician in the Republican Party. He served as a United States Representative for Massachusetts from 1905 to 1913, as a United States Senator from 1913 to 1919, and as Secretary of War from 1921 to 1925.-Life and career:Weeks was born and raised in Lancaster,...

    - 3
  • Others - 13
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