When Wilson retired in 1976, Foot contested the party leadership and led in the first ballot, but was ultimately defeated by James Callaghan.

Wilson and the bills ' supporters requested that Marshall put a gag-order in place to cut off debate, but he refused on ethical grounds, allowing a number of bills to be defeated in hopes that opposition would eventually end their filibuster.

This contrasted with the House of Representatives, a body elected by popular vote, and was described as an uncontroversial decision to make ; James Wilson was the sole advocate of popularly electing the Senate and his proposal was defeated 10 – 1.

On 3 October, the independents, Arthur Coles and Alex Wilson, voted with the Opposition in the House of Representatives to reject Fadden ’ s budget and the government fell -- to date, the last time a sitting government has been defeated in the House.

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.

Nevertheless, deadly guerrilla attacks particularly by the NLF soon resumed against British forces once again, with the British being defeated and driven from Aden by the end of November 1967, earlier than had been planned by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and without an agreement on the succeeding governance.

After a hard-fought contest, Wilson defeated Hughes by a narrow margin.

Gen. James H. Wilson, defeated Forrest in battle.

Wilson also challenged for the deputy leadership in 1962 but was defeated by George Brown.

Wilson responded to this apparent recovery in his government's popularity by calling a general election, but, to the surprise of most observers, was defeated at the polls by the Conservatives under Heath.

In the April 2011 city election, incumbent Mayor Linda Wilson chose not to run for re-election and was replaced by former Mayor James Morgan, who Wilson defeated two years earlier.

On November 2, 2010, Republicans Ed Trzaska and Patricia Graham defeated long-time Democratic incumbent Louise Wilson as well as her running mate, Neena Singh ( Brad Fay did not run for re-election ).

Subsequently Wilson asked that if the government were defeated on the floor of the House of Commons, the Queen would grant a dissolution, which she agreed to.

The inexperienced 2nd Armoured Division was soundly defeated and on 2 April Wavell came forward to review matters with Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Neame, by now the commander of British and Commonwealth troops in Cyrenaica ( Wilson having left to command the Allied expeditionary force in Greece ).

He defeated a leadership challenge from Bill Wilson in 2003, defeating Wilson by 577 votes to 111.

Wilson, in a spirited campaign, defeated both rivals.

Shaniqua defeated Wilson and Nidia in a handicap match.

" At the state Democratic convention in Batesville, Hindman easily defeated A. M. Wilson and Dandridge McRae.

In response the next day, MPs Wilson Tuckey and Dennis Jensen made a " spill motion " ( for a party leadership vote ), but it was defeated by 48 votes to 35.

The lame ducks depicted in this Clifford K. Berryman cartoon are defeated Democrats heading to the White House hoping to secure political appointments from then President Woodrow Wilson.

" In the general election, Brookhart defeated conservative Democrat Claude R. Porter, a former U. S. Attorney during the Wilson Administration.

Brown bitterly resented his leadership defeat, which came only weeks after he had defeated Wilson for the deputy leadership.

Rejecting the adversarial stance of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce Department a powerful service organization, empowered to forge cooperative voluntary partnerships between government and business.

He lost to Democrat Woodrow Wilson, as the Taft conservatives gained control of the Republican party for decades to come.

1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs – The Election That Changed the Country.

Some months later Wilson met with Taft ( Knox was out of town on vacation ), and upon hearing the information, the President immediately and unilaterally ordered a mobilization of 25, 000 troops to the Mexican border as well as naval maneuvers in the Gulf of Mexico.

Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat, was elected with 41 % of the popular vote ; Roosevelt got 27 %, and Taft garnered 25 %.

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.

Historian and Teddy Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris called Wilson in the Governor's race a " dark horse " and attributed his and others ' success against the Taft Republicans in 1910 in part to the emergent national progressive message enunciated by Roosevelt in his post-presidency.

It is not clear if Roosevelt cost fellow Republican Taft, or fellow progressive Wilson more support.

Wilson broke with the big lawsuit tradition of his predecessors Taft and Roosevelt as Trustbusters, finding a new approach to encouraging competition through the Federal Trade Commission, which stopped perceived unfair trade practices.

* Woodrow Wilson succeeds William Howard Taft as the 28th President of the United States.

Four years later, Presidents William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson sent a commission of Americans to study cooperative credit systems for farmers in Europe.

) to Woodrow Wilson, Howard Taft, and consequently both major political parties.

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

He also lost to Woodrow Wilson, and William H. Taft.

During the Progressive Era ( 1890s – 1920s ), Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson instituted regulation on parts of the American economy, most notably in regulating big business and industry.

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.

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.

The election was mainly a contest between Roosevelt and Wilson, Taft receiving little attention and carrying just eight electoral votes.

To resolve the long-standing dispute over trusts, the Wilson Administration dropped the " trust-busting " legal strategies of Roosevelt and Taft and relied on the new a Federal Trade Commission to issue orders prohibiting " unfair methods of competition " by business concerns in interstate trade.

Four United States presidents visited Charlotte to participate in the Mecklenburg Day celebration: William Howard Taft ( 1909 ), Woodrow Wilson ( 1916 ), Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1954 ), and Gerald Ford ( 1975 ).

Wilson served in the US diplomat corps during the presidencies of William McKinley ( 1897 – 1901 ), Theodore Roosevelt ( 1901 – 1909 ) and William Howard Taft ( 1909 – 1913 ).

Wilson was appointed Ambassador to Mexico by President Taft on 21 December, 1909 and presented his credentials to President Diaz on 5 March, 1910.

This system was used by former US president William Howard Taft at a speech in Grant Park, Chicago, and first used by a current president when Woodrow Wilson addressed 75, 000 people in San Diego, California.