... policies of the Republican Party appealed to many groups, including farmers, industrialists, and merchants. In 1912, President William Howard Taft was the leader of a divided Republican Party. Progressive Republicans wanted Theodore Roosevelt, who had been president from 1901 to 1909, to run again. But conservative Republicans renominated Taft at the party's 1912 national convention ... . Roosevelt then withdrew from the party and formed the Progressive, or "Bull Moose," Party. This split helped the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, win the election. The Republicans lost to Wilson ag...

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