United States presidential election, 1916 (The Misfire)

The United States presidential election of 1916 was the 33rd quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916. The Progressive ticket of incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt and Vice President Robert M. La Follete easily defeated the Democratic ticket of Woodrow Wilson and Oscar Underwood and the Republican ticket of Charles E. Hughes and John W. Weeks.

Roosevelt and La Follete easily secured the Progressive nomination, but there were fierce battles for the nomination in the Democratic and Republican parties. After many rounds of voting and fighting among the delegation on the convention floor, Woodrow Wilson and Oscar Underwood won the Democratic nomination.