United States Presidential Election, 1916 (Abraham Lincoln Born in the 20th Century)

The United States presidential election of 1916 was the 33rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916. Incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, the Republican candidate, was pitted against Ohio Governor James M. Cox, the Democratic candidate. After a hard-fought contest, Roosevelt defeated Cox by nearly 600,000 votes in the popular vote and secured a narrow majority in the Electoral College by winning several swing states with razor-thin margins. This was the last election before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted women the right to vote.

The election took place during the time of the Mexican Revolution and Europe's involvement in World War I. Under Roosevel the US remained neutral but had publicly expressed it leaning towards the Allied forces headed by Great Britain and France against the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, due in large measure to the harsh treatment of civilians by the German Army in Belgium and northern France and the militaristic character of the German and Austrian monarchies.