The more leftist members of the Democrat Party became involved in the leadership of labor unions and broke off to launch the Socialist Workers ' Party ( – POS ) in 1912.

Running against Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and Progressive (" Bull Moose ") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt, a former President, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.

Democrat Woodrow Wilson was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, thanks to the support of William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate who still had a large and loyal following in 1912.

( Newell Sanders, a Republican who represented Tennessee in the U. S. Senate from 1912 to 1913, had been appointed by Republican Governor Ben W. Hooper when Democrat Robert Love Taylor died in office.

He was the first Democrat elected from his district to represent Ulster County since 1912.

He was also nominated in 1910, and in 1912, losing all those elections, but Democrat William Paul Jarrett was nominated and won the elections in 1922 and 1924.

In 1912, he ran on the Progressive ticket for New York State Comptroller, but was defeated by Democrat William Sohmer.

Sanders was sworn in on 1912 April and served until 1913 January when the Tennessee General Assembly elected educator William R. Webb, a Democrat, to succeed him.

In 1912, Haskell unsuccessfully challenged his fellow Democrat Robert Latham Owen in a hard-fought primary for Owen's Senate seat.

Numerous blacks had voted for Democrat Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election, based on his promise to work for them.

The split opened the way in 1912 for Democrat Woodrow Wilson to become president with only 42 % of the vote.

A liberal Democrat his entire career, Hayden was elected to Congress in 1912 and moved to the Senate in 1926.

Connolly ran as a Democrat for Congress in 1912, against incumbent Republican Charles E. Pickett.

Along with incumbent Democrat Irvin S. Pepper in Iowa's 2nd congressional district and Democrat Sanford Kirkpatrick in Iowa's 6th congressional district, Connolly was elected in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress.

The paper made its first two endorsements of a Democrat for U. S. president ( Woodrow Wilson, in 1912 and 1916 ), endorsing only two other Democrats for that office in its history.

Entering politics, he became the first Democrat to win a countywide seat in Nassau since 1912, when regular Republicans and the Progressive ( Bull Moose ) Party split the Republican vote.

Anderson's finish was still the best showing for a third party candidate since George Wallace's 14 % in 1968 and the sixth best for any such candidate in the 20th century ( trailing Theodore Roosevelt's 27 % in 1912, Robert LaFollette's 17 % in 1924, Wallace, and Ross Perot's 19 % and 8 % in 1992 and 1996, respectively ).

In the 1992 election, he received 18. 9 % of the popular vote, approximately 19, 741, 065 votes ( but no electoral college votes ), making him the most successful third-party presidential candidate in terms of the popular vote since Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election.

In 1912, for example, Eugene Debs ( a founding member of the IWW ) polled 6 % of the popular vote as the Socialist Party presidential candidate — a significant portion of the popular vote considering that this was 8 years before the adoption of universal suffrage in the U. S. Some political scientists would, in part, attribute the lack of an American labour party to the single member plurality electoral system, which tends to favour a two-party system.

He ran as the Socialist Party's candidate for the presidency in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920, the last time from his prison cell.

Campaign poster from his U. S. presidential election, 1912 | 1912 Presidential campaign, featuring Debs and Vice Presidential candidate Emil Seidel

He was the Socialist Party of America candidate for president in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920 ( the final time from prison ).

Debs received 5. 99 % of the popular vote ( a total of 901, 551 votes ) in 1912, while his total of 913, 693 votes in the 1920 campaign remains the all-time high for a Socialist Party candidate.

He received 913, 664 write-in votes ( 3. 4 %), slightly less than he had won in 1912, when he received 6 %, the highest number of votes for a Socialist Party presidential candidate in the U. S. His time in prison also inspired Debs to write a series of columns deeply critical of the prison system, which appeared in sanitized form in the Bell Syndicate and appeared in his only book, Walls and Bars, with several added chapters.

In the 1912 presidential elections, because of the split votes amongst Republicans in most states, Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson was elected as president.

* Whitelaw Reid ( 1837 – 1912 ), journalist and editor of the New York Tribune, Vice Presidential candidate with Benjamin Harrison in 1892, defeated by Adlai E. Stevenson I ; son-in-law of D. O.

Liesching was nominated in 1912 as a joint candidate of the National Liberal Party ( Germany ) and the Progressive People's Party ( Germany ).

* Fred Preaus ( 1912 – 1987 ), automobile dealer and timber businessman in Farmerville, state highway director ( 1952 – 1955 ), gubernatorial candidate in 1956

In 1912, he was being considered as a possible candidate for President of the United States, but died as the result of an operation for intestinal adhesions in Rochester, Minnesota on September 21, 1909.

A year after the Act's passage, Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party presidential candidate in 1904, 1908, and 1912 was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for making a speech that " obstructed recruiting ".

In the 1913 election, Rutherford was again nominated as the Liberal candidate in Edmonton South ( Strathcona had been amalgamated into Edmonton in 1912 ), despite pledging opposition to the Sifton government and offering to campaign around the province for the Conservatives if they agreed not to run a candidate against him.

Muste was influenced by the prevalent theology of the social gospel began to read the written ideas of various radical thinkers of the day, going so far as to vote for Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs for President of the United States in 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.

The Party grew out of Perot's efforts in the 1992 presidential election, where — running as an independent — he became the first non-major party candidate since 1912 to have been considered viable enough to win the presidency.

* Robert M. La Follette, Sr. ( 1855 – 1925 ), senator, congressman, governor of Wisconsin and candidate for President, ( 1912 and 1924 )

Ironically, in the 1912 campaign, McDonald was Woodrow Wilson's bodyguard.

The American presence is remembered today by the Woodrow Wilson bridge over the Loire, which was officially opened in July 1918 and bears the name of the man who was President of the USA from 1912 to 1920.

Woodrow Wilson " Woody " Guthrie ( July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967 ) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works.

He sought to be elected to a ( non-consecutive ) term in 1912 but lost to Woodrow Wilson.

Born in 1912 in the third generation of a selective breeding experiment run by the Ira Howard Foundation, Lazarus ( birth name Woodrow Wilson Smith ) becomes unusually long-lived, living well over two thousand years with the aid of occasional rejuvenation treatments.

Tompkins would be the last Vice-President to be elected to two terms with the same President until Thomas R. Marshall was elected Vice-President, first in 1912 with Woodrow Wilson and again in 1916.

In 1912, Baker supported the presidential candidacy of Woodrow Wilson, which led to a close relationship between the two men, and in 1918 Wilson sent Baker to Europe to study the war situation.

In 1912, he was a delegate to Democratic National Convention which nominated Woodrow Wilson for U. S. President.

With the 1912 election of US President Woodrow Wilson, who carried San Francisco, supporters of the dam had a friend in the White House.

In 1912 Frankfurter supported the Bull Moose campaign to return Roosevelt to the presidency and was bitterly disappointed when Woodrow Wilson was elected.

Parker later served as a temporary chairman and keynote speaker at the 1912 Democratic National Convention, which nominated Woodrow Wilson for President .< ref >

Daniels supported Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 presidential election, and after Wilson's victory was appointed as Secretary of the Navy.

He became one of Woodrow Wilson's strongest supporters, from Wilson's nomination for the Presidency in 1912 through the losing battle to ratify American participation in the League of Nations in 1920.

At the 1912 Convention, he played a key role in holding the Pennsylvania delegation together in voting for Woodrow Wilson.

Hill identified as a Republican and was, at times, active in the party, but he disliked Teddy Roosevelt's trust-busting, thought William Howard Taft was a disastrous choice for president to the point that he openly backed William Jennings Bryan in 1908 and Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and 1916, though he eventually came to oppose Wilson some time after the end of World War I.

At the 1912 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, Burke enthusiastically supported the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson.

In 1912, Spring-Rice was appointed as Ambassador to the United States of America where he influenced the administration of Woodrow Wilson to abandon neutrality and join Britain in the war against Germany.

But after the 1912 national Democratic Convention, where the three worked for the presidential nomination of Woodrow Wilson, Wilson ignored their faction of the state Democratic party and instead selected the larger, Tammany Hall-led wing of the Democratic party to represent the state.

He was a delegate to the 1912 Democratic Convention in Baltimore, Maryland that nominated Woodrow Wilson to the presidency.

The bridge is named in honor of the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson ( 1856 – 1924 ), who, when elected in 1912, was serving as the Governor of New Jersey, but who was native of Staunton, Virginia.

In 1912 incumbent Republican William Howard Taft was defeated in an electoral landslide, losing to Woodrow Wilson, a Democratic Governor of New Jersey ( though he was from Virginia ).

In the 1912 presidential election, Lane supported Democratic candidate and New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson, though he declined to make campaign speeches on Wilson's behalf, citing ICC policy that commissioners act in a nonpartisan manner.