United States presidential election, 1916 (Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum)

The United States presidential election of 1916 was the 33rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916. Progressive candidate, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, sought his fourth term in office; he was pitted against Republican Elihu Root and Liberal William Gibbs McAdoo. After a hard-fought contest, Roosevelt defeated two other candidates and secured a narrow Electoral College margin by winning several swing states by razor-thin margins. As a result, Roosevelt became the first non-Republican, non-Liberal president since 1820s to be elected to two consecutive terms of office and the first and only U.S. president that ever elected to the fourth term prior to the Twentieth Amendment.