Theodore Roosevelt

Photo of former President Theodore Roosevelt in the library of his home at Oyster Bay, Long Island, about 1912. Roosevelt had been out of office for three years in 1912; that year he ran again for president as the candidate of the National Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party. The three-way race between Roosevelt, President William Taft, and Democrat Woodrow Wilson was won by Wilson.

Photo by William Herman Rau. Image from the U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Digital ID: cph 3f06234

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