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Bull Moose Party

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Bull Moose party: see Progressive party Progressive party, in U.S. history, the name of three political organizations, active, respectively, in the presidential elections of 1912, 1924, and 1948. Election of 1912

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Bull Moose Party

U.S. dissident political party that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency in 1912. Formed by Sen. Robert La Follette in 1911 as the National Republican Progressive League, it opposed the conservatism of the Republican Party controlled by Pres. William H. Taft. The party derived its name from the characteristics of strength and vigour that Roosevelt attributed to himself. In 1912 Roosevelt won 25% of the popular vote; thus split, the Republicans lost the election to the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson. The party gradually dissolved, and the Republicans were reunited in 1916. See also Progressive Party.
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47 The Bull Moose party (formally the Progressive Party) got quarter of the vote in the US presidential election vote of 1912, led by which ex-President?
50 for fun; Phil Brown's weekly trivia quiz by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
A BULL MOOSE PARTY Roosevelt bolted the Republican Party and a few weeks later, he was nominated by the Progressive Party, a coalition of mostly insurgent liberal Republicans.
In 1912, three was a crowd: Teddy Roosevelt showed that a third party ... by Roberts, Sam / New York Times Upfront
Millard Fillmore switched from Whig to the American or Know-Nothing party and Theodore Roosevelt went from Republican to the Progressive or Bull Moose Party.
MAIL BOX: JUST ASK... If there is a question nagging you, write to me ... by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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