Summary

The election was held on November 6, 1900. A rematch of the 1896 race between Republican President William McKinley and his Democratic challenger from Nebraska, William Jennings Bryan, the recent victory in the Spanish-American War virtually assured McKinley re-election.

Republican convention

The 926 Republican delegates chose to renominate William McKinley by acclamation. Party leaders, thinking they would slide him into a position of relative obscurity, supported Spanish-American War Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt of New York as the Vice Presidential nominee, replacing Garret A. Hobart, who died in 1899.

Democratic convention

William Jennings Bryan was easily renominated at the 1900 Democratic National Convention, garnering 936 delegate votes. Former Vice President Adlai Stevenson was nominated for the office again, beating out David B. Hill, Abram W. Patrick and Julian S. Carr for the nomination.

Other parties

The Populist Party, which four years earlier had supported Bryan, this time went their own way, nominating a ticket of Wharton Barker and Ignatius Donnelly. The Socialist Party made its first bid for the White House in 1900, choosing Eugene Debs as its Presidential standard bearer.

Election results

See also: President of the United States, U.S. presidential election, 1900, History of the United States (1865-1918)

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