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The election of 1908 was the thirty-first presidential election in the United States. The election was a competition between Republican William Howard Taft and three-time nominee for the Democratic Party,…
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The presidential election of 1912 was a three-way race between Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. A faction of the Republican Party broke off to become the Progressive…
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The presidential election of 1916 took place during World War I. The United States remained neutral at this time, but the war was an important aspect of the election and…
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The presidential election of 1920 took place shortly after the end of World War I. Incumbent President Woodrow Wilson had fallen out of favor and the Democratic Party lost its…
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The presidential election of 1924 was a three-way race between incumbent President Calvin Coolidge of the Republican Party, Democratic candidate John W. Davis, and Progressive Party nominee Robert M. La…
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The 1928 presidential election was a battle between Republican candidate Herbert Hoover of California and Democratic nominee Al Smith, who served as Governor of New York. The great economic conditions…
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The presidential election of 1932 took place in the aftermath of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, after the onset of the Great Depression. Many of incumbent President Herbert Hoover’s…
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The presidential election of 1936 was a race between incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Republican opponent, Governor Alf Landon. Though the incumbent had the advantage, Landon was predicted…
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The presidential election of 1940 took place during the Great Depression, while Europe was engaged in World War II. The United States had not yet entered the war, and that…
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By the time of the 1944 presidential election, the United States had entered World War II under the leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt had already served three full terms,…
