1916 United States presidential election

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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 1916. The Democratic ticket of incumbent president Woodrow Wilson and incumbent vice president Thomas Marshall defeated the Republican ticket of former associate justice of the Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes and former vice president Charles Fairbanks by a narrow margin. Wilson was the first incumbent Democrat since 1832 to win re-election to a second consecutive term. In June, the 1916 Republican National Convention chose Hughes as a compromise between the conservative and progressive wings of the party. Hughes was on the Supreme Court in 1912 and was not involved in the bitter politics of that year. He defeated John W. Weeks, Elihu Root, and several other candidates on the third ballot. While conservative and progressive Republicans had been divided in the 1912 election between the candidacies of incumbent President William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt, they largely united around Hughes in...

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