Candidates: Democratic Party: Franklin Roosevelt (New York) and Henry Wallace (Iowa) Republican Party: Wendell Willkie (New York) and Charles McNary (Oregon) Election Results: Roosevelt and Wallace: 27.31 million popular votes, 449 electoral votes. Willkie and McNary: 22.34 million popular votes, 82 electoral votes. Summary: As the 1940 presidential election loomed large, the question of whether […]
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Theodore Roosevelt, who went on to become our twenty-sixth president after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901, was a doer of great deeds. He became known as a “trust-buster, was the driving force behind the Panama Canal, was awarded a Nobel peace Prize, and won the presidency outright on his own in 1904. Theodore […]
Candidates: Democratic Party: Franklin Roosevelt (New York) and John Nance Garner (Texas) Republican Party: Herbert Hoover (California) and Charles Curtis (Kansas) Socialist Party: Norman Thomas (New York) and James Maurer (Pennsylvania) Election Results: Roosevelt and Garner: 22.82 million popular votes, 472 electoral votes. Hoover and Curtis: 15.76 million popular votes, 59 electoral votes. Thomas and […]
Candidates: Democratic Party: Woodrow Wilson (New Jersey) and Thomas Marshall (Indiana) Progressive Party: Theodore Roosevelt (New York) and Hiram Johnson (California) Republican Party: William Howard Taft (Ohio) and Nicholas Butler (New York) Socialist Party: Eugene Debs (Indiana) and Emil Seidel (Wisconsin) Election Results: Wilson and Marshall: 6.29 million popular votes, 435 electoral votes. Roosevelt and […]
Candidates: Republican Party: William Howard Taft (Ohio) and James Sherman (New York) Democratic Party: William Jennings Bryan (Nebraska) and John Kern (Indiana) Socialist Party: Eugene Debs (Indiana) and Benjamin Hanford (New York) Election Results: Taft and Sherman: 7.67 million popular votes, 321 electoral votes. Bryan and Kern: 6.40 million popular votes, 162 electoral votes. Debs […]
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Many of us missed the opportunity to see Marilyn Monroe alive and in her prime, but not to worry, you can still see the movie starlet when visiting the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, located at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California. The only problem with seeing the beauty is that it’s only her ghostly image that is […]