1908 United States presidential election

1908 United States presidential election
483 members of the Electoral College; 242 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout	65.7% 0.2 pp
	ElectoralCollege1908.svg Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Taft/Sherman, blue denotes those won by Bryan/Kern. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
President before election; Theodore Roosevelt; Republican	Elected President ; William Howard Taft; Republican

The 1908 United States presidential election was the 31st election in the history of the United States. It occurred on November 3, 1908. This election was between Secretary of War William Howard Taft of Ohio and former Congressman from Ohio and Democratic Party Nominee in 1896 and 1900 William Jennings Bryan. Taft won the election with 321 electoral votes, while Bryan got only 162 electoral votes.

This would be the fourth and most recent election in the history of the United States, where both major candidates share the same first name, with the last three being in 1860, 1896, and 1900.

Nominations:

Republican Party:

William Howard Taft, Secretary of War (1904-1908) (Nominee)
Philander C. Knox, Senator of Wisconsin (1904-1909; 1917-1921)
Charles Evans Hughes, Governor of New York (1907-1910)
Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1903-1911)
Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th Vice-President of the United States from Indiana (1905-1909)
Robert M. La Follette, Senator from Wisconsin (1906-1924)
Joseph B. Foraker, Senator of Ohio (1897-1909)
L. M. Shaw, former Secretary of the Treasury (1902-1907)
George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of the Treasury (1907-1909)

Democratic Party:

William Jennings Bryan, former Congressman of Nebraska (1891-1895) and Nominee in 1896 and 1900 (Nominee)
George Gray, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1899-1914)
John A. Johnson, Governor of Minnesota (1905-1909)

1908 United States Presidential Election Media

The incumbent in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt. His second term expired at noon on March 4, 1909.
Republican Party (United States)
William Howard Taft, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front
James S. Sherman
1908 Republican candidates.
William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Philander Knox, U.S. Secretary of State.
Charles Evans Hughes, Governor of New York, future U.S. Supreme Court justice
Title: Digital display record: This record exists solely to make the digital image available. You may be able to find information about the displayed item by looking at other online catalog records retrieved with the Reproduction Number below. If no such record is retrieved, information may be found in Prints & Photographs Division manual indexes.*Abstract/medium: 1 photograph : print.
Charles W Fairbanks