Eisenhower defeated Taft for the nomination, having won critical delegate votes from Texas.

William Howard Taft, a Unitarian, is noted to have said in a letter to a friend, " I am interested in the spread of Christian civilization, but to go into a dogmatic discussion of creed I will not do whether I am defeated or not.

His family and supporters threw their support to Roosevelt's old military companion, General Leonard Wood, who was ultimately defeated by Taft supporter Warren G. Harding.

The task-oriented Taft was oblivious to the political ramifications of his decisions, often alienated his own key constituencies, and was overwhelmingly defeated in his bid for a second term in the presidential election of 1912.

Taft defeated Bryan by 159 electoral votes ; however, he garnered just 51 % of the popular vote.

Taft ultimately outmaneuvered Roosevelt and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in delegate count, regained control of the GOP convention ; and defeated Roosevelt for the nomination.

Wilson soundly defeated Lewis in the general election by a margin of more than 49, 000 votes, although Republican William Howard Taft had carried New Jersey in the 1908 presidential election by more than 80, 000 votes.

In the contest for the Republican nomination, President William Howard Taft defeated former president Theodore Roosevelt, who then ran as a Bull Moose Party candidate, which assisted in Wilson's success in the electoral college.

While Taft stressed that America needed to prevent the New Deal from using the international crisis to extend socialism and dictatorship at home, the German blitzkrieg that quickly defeated France shook public opinion.

Wilson defeated Taft, Roosevelt, and Debs in the general election, winning a large majority in the Electoral College and 42 % of the popular vote, while his nearest rival, Roosevelt, won only 27 %.

However, Taft defeated Stassen in his native Ohio, and Stassen earned the hostility of the party's conservatives.

Still, Eisenhower defeated Taft for the nomination ; Dirksen then supported Eisenhower's candidacy.

Able to mobilize both black and white voters, he defeated Seth Taft, the grandson of a former US president, with a 50. 5 % margin.

" With the help of Dewey, General Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Taft for the 1952 presidential nomination and became the leader of the moderates.

Taft was elected to the first of his three terms as U. S. Senator in 1938 when he defeated the Democratic incumbent, Robert Bulkley.

In 1944 Taft was nearly defeated in his bid for a second term in the Senate.

Taft condemned the trials as a violation of the most basic principles of American justice and internationally accepted standards in favor of a politicized version of justice, in which court proceedings became an excuse for vengeance against the defeated.

Eisenhower won all the Republican delegates and defeated Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, who had campaigned intensively in the state, by a vote of 50 % to 38 %.

New Hampshire has held a presidential primary since 1916, but it did not begin to assume its current importance until 1952 after the state simplified its ballot access laws in 1949 seeking to boost voter turnout, when Dwight Eisenhower demonstrated his broad voter appeal by defeating Robert A. Taft, " Mr. Republican ," who had been favored for the nomination, and Estes Kefauver defeated incumbent President Harry S. Truman, leading Truman to abandon his campaign for a second term of his own.

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 ).

After Bryan was defeated by Taft, Kern was subsequently outmaneuvered by Democrat Benjamin F. Shively for an open U. S. Senate seat for Indiana.

Democrats took open seats in Arizona, Hawaii, Nebraska, and defeated incumbents John Glenn Beall, Jr. of Maryland, James L. Buckley of New York's Conservative Party, Robert Taft, Jr. of Ohio, and Bill Brock of Tennessee.

He ran as the candidate of the newly formed Progressive Party, better known as the Bull Moose Party, and received second place, doing better than the Republican candidate William Howard Taft but being defeated by the Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson.

As a measure, perhaps, of both Schmidt's unpopularity, and a growing anti-Republican trend in Ohio due to the unpopularity of Bush and Ohio Governor Bob Taft, Schmidt defeated Victoria Wells Wulsin, the second-place finished in the 2005 Democratic primary, by an even smaller margin than that by which she had defeated Hackett in 2005.

After he finally broke with Taft, Roosevelt saw himself as the only person who could save the Republican party from defeat in the upcoming Presidential election and announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination.

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.

Unable to tolerate the personal humiliation he suffered at the hands of Taft and the Old Guard, and refusing to entertain the possibility of a compromise candidate, Roosevelt struck back hard.

Vandenberg, the senior Republican in the Senate, was the " favorite son " candidate of the Michigan delegation and was considered a possible compromise candidate if Taft or Dewey faltered.

Even so, Willkie remained a long-shot candidate ; the May 8 Gallup Poll showed Dewey at 67 % support among Republicans, followed by Vandenberg and Taft, with Willkie at only 3 %.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

However, Taft surprised many by announcing that he was not a candidate ; instead he voiced his support for a fellow conservative, Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio.

Taft was an announced candidate, and given his age he freely admitted that 1952 was his last chance to win the presidency.

Dewey played a key role in convincing Eisenhower to run against Taft, and when Eisenhower became a candidate Dewey used his powerful political machine to win Eisenhower the support of delegates in New York and elsewhere.

In 1912, Democrat candidate Woodrow Wilson had carried the county with a 3. 06 % majority over its Republican opponent William Taft.

When Eisenhower finally consented, Lodge served as his campaign manager and played a key role in helping Eisenhower to win the nomination over Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the candidate of the party's conservative faction.

The Progressives finished second nationally ahead of the incumbent Republican, President William Howard Taft, but still lost the election to the Democrats and their candidate, Woodrow Wilson.

In the early 1950s Fellers was actively involved in promoting Robert Taft as a Presidential candidate.

Two years later, Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic, progressive governor of the state of New Jersey, campaigned against Taft, the Republican candidate, and against Roosevelt who was appalled by his successor's policies and thus broke his earlier pledge to not run for a third term.

In the 1908 presidential election, Dolliver's name was again touted as a potential vice-presidential candidate, this time on the ticket with William Howard Taft.

His younger brother, Charles Taft, served as the Mayor of Cincinnati and was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1952.

North Dakota Republicans favored progressive presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette over Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

In 2001, Taft entered politics and was elected to the legislature as an Alberta Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) in the riding of Edmonton Riverview, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate and former city councillor Wendy Kinsella.

Taft also saw his support in Riverview solidify ; he received more votes than any other candidate, of any party, in the 2004 election.