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United States presidential election of 1904
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John M. Cunningham graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2000 with a B.A. in English. He worked at Britannica from 2004 to 2018. A student of pop culture and the arts, he wrote about popular (and semipopular)...
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November 8, 1904

United States presidential election of 1904, American presidential election, held on November 8, 1904, in which Republican incumbent Pres. Theodore Roosevelt soundly defeated Democrat Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt’s win marked the first time that a president not originally elected to the office succeeded in retaining the presidency. Roosevelt began preparing for the election not long after assuming the presidency in 1901 upon Pres. William McKinley’s assassination. Roosevelt’s dynamic personality and his vigorous pursuit of a raft of policy goals, such as the expansion of the national park system and the strengthening of American influence abroad, during his initial years in ...(100 of 646 words)

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