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- From March 19 to June 4, 1912, delegates to the 1912 Republican National Convention were selected through a series of primaries and caucuses to determine the party's nominee for President in the 1912 election. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was chosen over former President Theodore Roosevelt. Taft's victory at the national convention precipitated a fissure in the Republican Party, with Roosevelt standing for the presidency as the candidate of an independent Progressive Party, and the election of Democrat Woodrow Wilson over the divided Republicans. For the first time, a large number of delegates were selected through direct primary elections rather than local or state party conventions. Primary elections were a progressive reform supported by Roosevelt and his allies, and the primaries were largely dominated by Roosevelt or Robert M. La Follette, a fellow progressive who entered the race early. However, President Taft was equally dominant under the traditional caucus and convention systems, where executive patronage power could be leveraged in his favor and party bosses were able to maneuver delegations towards him. At the conclusion of the delegation selection process, Roosevelt had won 411 instructed delegates, Taft had 201, and 254 were contested between the two candidates. Of the remaining delegates, 46 were pledged to the minor candidates Albert B. Cummins and Robert M. La Follette and 166 were uninstructed. In the end, Taft won the vast majority of the contests over delegate credentials, delivering him a working majority outright, and many Roosevelt supporters abstained from voting at the convention before bolting to form their own party. (en)
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- ;U.S. Senators
*W. Murray Crane, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
*Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
;U.S. Representatives
*Augustus Peabody Gardner, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
*James Eli Watson, former U.S. Representative from Indiana
;Statewide officials
*Warren Harding, former Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
;Individuals
*William Barnes Jr., chairman of the New York Republican State Committee (en)
- ;U.S. Senators
*Albert Cummins, U.S. Senator from Iowa and favorite son
*Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (en)
- ;U.S. Executive Branch officials
*James Rudolph Garfield, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior
*Gifford Pinchot, former Chief of the United States Forest Service
;U.S. Senators
*Jonathan Bourne Jr., U.S. Senator from Washington
;Journalists
*Medill McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune
;Individuals
*Amos Pinchot, attorney, activist, and brother of Gifford Pinchot (en)
- ;U.S. Executive Branch officials
*James Rudolph Garfield, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior
*Truman Newberry, former U.S. Secretary of the Navy
*Gifford Pinchot, former Chief of the United States Forest Service
;U.S. Senators
*Albert Beveridge, former U.S. Senator from Indiana
*William Borah, U.S. Senator from Idaho
*Jonathan Bourne Jr., U.S. Senator from Washington
*Joseph L. Bristow, U.S. Senator from Kansas
*Moses E. Clapp, U.S. Senator from Minnesota
*Joseph M. Dixon, U.S. Senator from Montana
;U.S. Representatives
*Victor Murdock, U.S. Representative from Kansas
;Governors
*Robert P. Bass, Governor of New Hampshire
*William E. Glasscock, Governor of West Virginia
*Herbert S. Hadley, Governor of Missouri
*Hiram Johnson, Governor of California
*Chase Osborn, Governor of Michigan
*Walter R. Stubbs, Governor of Kansas
;Statewide officials
*Timothy Woodruff, former Lieutenant Governor of New York
;Journalists
*Henry Justin Allen, publisher of the Manhattan Nationalist and Topeka State Journal
*O.K. Davis, former reporter for The New York Times
*Frank Knox, founding editor of the Manchester Leader
*Medill McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune
*Frank Munsey, publisher of the Washington Times, Boston Journal, and New York Press
*William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette
;Individuals
*William Flinn, chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee
*Francis J. Heney, former prosecutor from San Francisco and Oregon
*Amos Pinchot, attorney, activist, and brother of Gifford Pinchot
*George Walbridge Perkins, business aide to J.P. Morgan
*Alexander Revell, millionaire furniture retailer (en)
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