United States Presidential Election, 1912 (Abraham Lincoln Born in the 20th Century)

The United States presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1912. The election was a rare four-way contest. Popular incumbent president Theodore Roosevelt was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing. Democrat William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate who still had a large and loyal following in 1912, easily won the Democratic nomination. The populist party for the first time in it’s inception had a nominee make it to the election polls, Nelson W. Aldrich, the Democratic nominee in 1900, was nominated for President for the last time in his life before he would retire. Meanwhile, the Socialist Party of America renominated its perennial standard-bearer, Eugene V. Debs. It would be the first time a President would be elected for more than 2 terms (Franklin Roosevelt would be the closest with having 4 terms before dying in office), it was also the first time the populist party would have a nominee successfully make it to the polls (the last would be a decade later in the 1920 election).