The United States presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1912. The election was a rare four-way contest. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party"). It nominated Roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. Democrat Champ Clark was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, after New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson dropped out and most of his delegates flocked to Clark. William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic pre