Encyclopedia > U.S. presidential election, 1908

  Article Content

U.S. presidential election, 1908

Presidential CandidateElectoral Vote Popular Vote Pct Party Running Mate
(Electoral Votes)
William Howard Taft (W) 321 7,678,908 Republican James S. Sherman (321)
William Jennings Bryan 162 6,409,104 Democrat John W. Kern[?] (162)
Other elections: 1896, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920
Source: U.S. Office of the Federal Register (http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/scores#1908)


(Larger version)

Notes:

Other candidates:

  • Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs received 420,380 popular votes
  • Prohibition Party candidate Eugene W. Chafin received 252,821 popular votes

Vice-President James S. Sherman died in office October 30, 1912.

See also: President of the United States, U.S. presidential election, 1908



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Explorer

... South Pole less than one month after Amundsen, but died on the return voyage Scylax of Caryanda[?] - a Greek explorer sent by the king of Persia to sail down the Indus ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 36.7 ms