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{{Short description|American political party founded by Theodore Roosevelt}}
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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Progressive Party
| logo             = Progressive_Moose_walking.png
| colorcode        = {{party color|Progressive Party (US, 1912)}}
| foundation       = {{start date and age|1912}}
| ideology         = {{ubli|[[Progressivism in the United States|Progressivism]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-02-13|title=Transforming American Democracy: TR and The Bull Moose Campaign of 1912 |url=https://millercenter.org/transforming-american-democracy-tr-and-bull-moose-campaign-1912|access-date=2020-11-14|website=Miller Center |language=en}}</ref>|[[Radicalism in the United States|Radicalism]]<ref name="auto">{{cite book|editor=Gilbert Abcarian |title=American Political Radicalism: Contemporary Issues and Orientations |date=1971 |publisher=Xerox College Pub }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor=Jacob Kramer |title=The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance |date=2017 |publisher=Temple University Press }}</ref>|[[New Nationalism (Theodore Roosevelt)|New Nationalism]]<ref name=kl>[http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/trnationalismspeech.pdf "The New Nationalism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527121424/http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/trnationalismspeech.pdf |date=May 27, 2016 }}, text of Theodore Roosevelt's August 31, 1910 speech in Osawatomie, Kansas</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-first=Stanley Nider |editor1-last=Katz |editor2-first=Stanley I. |editor2-last=Kutler |title=New Perspectives on the American Past: 1877 to the present |quote=On the Right, some Republican and Progressive nationalist spokesmen, such as Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Beveridge, George Perkins, and Henry Cabot Lodge, were not willing to see tariffs lowered as a means of increasing exports ... |date=1972 |page=169 }}</ref>}}
| headquarters     = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| international    = 
| country          = United States
| caption          = The [[Moose|bull moose]] was the party's official [[mascot]]
| leader1_title    = Chair
| leader1_name     = [[Theodore Roosevelt]]
| dissolution      = {{End date and age|1920}}
| split            = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]
| predecessor      = [[Lincoln–Roosevelt League]]
| successor        = {{nowrap|[[California Progressive Party]]}}
| merged           = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] (majority)
| position         = [[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]]<ref>{{cite journal |quote=pushed Wilson in liberal directions |first=Patrick |last=Selmi |title=Jane Addams and the Progressive Party Campaign for President in 1912 |journal=Journal of Progressive Human Services |volume=22 |issue=2 |year=2011 |pages=160–190|doi=10.1080/10428232.2010.540705 }}</ref>
| symbol           = [[File:Theodore Roosevelt 1912 Progressive Party bull moose campaign button.jpg|100px]]
| colors           = {{color box|#b63434|border=darkgray}} [[Red]]<ref>Multiple sources: 
*{{cite news|title=Raise Red Bandana as Roosevelt Battle Flag; Near Emblem of Socialism Gives Color to the New-Born Party|work=Idaho Statesman|location=Boise, Idaho|date=June 24, 1912|page=4|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A114CF38DF1A90B10%40GB3NEWS-11A2FEDA4B1BE328%402419578-11A2FEDAA97AD9C8%407-11A2FEDCC0091438%40Raise%2BRed%2BBandana%2Bas%2BRoosevelt%2BBattle%2BFlag%2Bnear%2BEmblem%2Bof%2BSocialism%2BGives%2BColor%2Bto%2Bthe?h=6&fname=&lname=&fullname=&rgfromDate=1911&rgtoDate=1916&formDate=&formDateFlex=exact&dateType=range&kwinc=%22red%20bandana%22%20%22Progressive%20Party%22&kwexc=}}
* {{cite book|title=Reinventing 'The People'|last=Stromquist|first=Shelton|publisher=University of Illinois Press|page=101|location=Chicago|year=2006|isbn=9780252030260|quote=When the Progressive convention opened in Chicago on August 5, 1912, it reminded many observers of a revival&nbsp;... The social reform community organized a 'Jane Addams chorus', distributed bright red bandanas that became the party's symbol&nbsp;...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ra-R4mNZhUQC&pg=PA101}}
* {{cite book|title=The American Promise|volume=II|page=674|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TDOiL_zQWhMC&pg=PA674|publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's|location=Boston, New York|year=2012|isbn=9780312663148}}</ref>
}}
[[File:Aa addams work 2 e.jpg|thumb|The [[1912 Progressive National Convention]] at the [[Chicago Coliseum]]]]
The '''Progressive Party''', popularly nicknamed the '''Bull Moose Party''', was a [[Third party (U.S. politics)|third party]] in the [[United States]] formed in 1912 by former president [[Theodore Roosevelt]] after he lost the [[1912 Republican Party presidential primaries|presidential nomination of the Republican Party]] to his former protégé turned rival, incumbent president [[William Howard Taft]]. The new party was known for taking advanced positions on [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] reforms and attracting leading national reformers. The party was also ideologically deeply connected with America's [[radical-liberal]] tradition.<ref name="auto"/> After the party's defeat in the [[1912 United States presidential election]], it went into rapid decline in elections until [[1918 United States elections|1918]], disappearing by 1920. The "Bull Moose" nickname originated when Roosevelt boasted that he felt "strong as a [[Moose|bull moose]]" after losing the Republican nomination in June 1912 at the Chicago convention.<ref>{{cite book|last=Morris|first=Edmund|title=Colonel Roosevelt|publisher=Random House |location=New York|pages=215, 646}}</ref>

As a member of the [[History of the Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], Roosevelt had served as president from 1901 to 1909, becoming increasingly progressive in the later years of his presidency. In the [[1908 United States presidential election|1908 presidential election]], Roosevelt helped ensure that he would be succeeded by [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] Taft. Although Taft entered office determined to advance Roosevelt's [[Square Deal]] domestic agenda, he stumbled badly during the [[Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act]] debate and the [[Pinchot–Ballinger controversy]]. The political fallout of these events divided the Republican Party and alienated Roosevelt from his former friend.<ref>{{cite web| last=Arnold| first=Peri E.| title=William Taft: Domestic Affairs| date=October 4, 2016| url=https://millercenter.org/president/taft/domestic-affairs| publisher=Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia| access-date=February 20, 2019}}</ref> Progressive Republican leader [[Robert M. La Follette]] had already announced a challenge to Taft for the 1912 Republican nomination, but many of his supporters shifted to Roosevelt after the former president decided to seek a third presidential term, which was permissible under the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]] prior to the ratification of the [[Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Twenty-second Amendment]]. At the [[1912 Republican National Convention]], Taft narrowly defeated Roosevelt for the party's presidential nomination. After the convention, Roosevelt, [[Frank Munsey]], [[George Walbridge Perkins]] and other progressive Republicans established the Progressive Party and nominated a ticket of Roosevelt and [[Hiram Johnson]] of California at the [[1912 Progressive National Convention]]. The new party attracted several Republican officeholders, although nearly all of them remained loyal to the Republican Party—in California, Johnson and the Progressives took control of the Republican Party.

The party's platform built on Roosevelt's [[Square Deal]] domestic program and called for several progressive reforms. The platform asserted that "to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day". Proposals on the platform included restrictions on [[Campaign finance in the United States|campaign finance]] contributions, a reduction of the [[tariffs in United States history|tariff]] and the establishment of a [[social insurance]] system, an [[Eight-hour day|eight-hour workday]] and [[women's suffrage]]. The party was split on the regulation of large corporations, with some party members disappointed that the platform did not contain a stronger call for "[[United States antitrust law|trust-busting]]". Party members also had different outlooks on foreign policy, with pacifists like [[Jane Addams]] opposing Roosevelt's call for a naval build-up.

In the 1912 election, Roosevelt won 27.4% of the popular vote compared to Taft's 23.2%, making Roosevelt the only [[List of third party performances in United States presidential elections|third-party presidential nominee]] to finish with a higher share of the popular vote than a major party's presidential nominee. Both Taft and Roosevelt finished behind [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] nominee [[Woodrow Wilson]], who won 41.8% of the popular vote and the vast majority of the [[Electoral College (United States)|electoral vote]]. The Progressives elected several Congressional and state legislative candidates, but the election was marked primarily by Democratic gains. The [[1916 Progressive National Convention]] was held in conjunction with the [[1916 Republican National Convention]] in hopes of reunifying the parties with Roosevelt as the presidential nominee of both parties. The Progressive Party collapsed after Roosevelt refused the Progressive nomination and insisted his supporters vote for [[Charles Evans Hughes]], the moderately progressive Republican nominee. Most Progressives joined the Republican Party, but some converted to the Democratic Party and Progressives such as [[Harold L. Ickes]] would play a role in President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s administration. In 1924, La Follette set up another [[Progressive Party (United States, 1924–1927)|Progressive Party]] for his presidential run. A third [[Progressive Party (United States, 1948–1955)|Progressive Party]] was set up in 1948 for the presidential campaign of former vice president [[Henry A. Wallace]].

== Losing to President Taft ==
[[File:For Auld Lang Syne - Leonard Raven-Hill.jpg|thumb|''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' in May 1912 depicts no-holds-barred fight between Taft and Roosevelt]]

Roosevelt selected Taft, his [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]], to succeed him as the presidential candidate because he thought Taft closely mirrored his own positions. Taft easily won the [[1908 United States presidential election|1908 presidential election]] over [[William Jennings Bryan]]. Roosevelt became disappointed by Taft's increasingly conservative policies. Roosevelt was outraged when Taft used the [[Sherman Anti-Trust Act]] to sue [[U.S. Steel]] for an action that President Roosevelt had explicitly approved.<ref>{{cite book |author=Jean Strouse |title=Morgan: American Financier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CApWQcE6t0IC&pg=PT1413 |year=2012 |publisher=Random House |page=1413|isbn=9780307827678 }}</ref> They became openly hostile and Roosevelt decided to seek the presidency in early 1912. Taft was already being challenged by progressive leader Senator [[Robert M. La Follette Sr.|Robert La Follette]] of Wisconsin. Most of La Follette's supporters switched to Roosevelt, leaving the Wisconsin senator embittered.

Nine of the states where progressive elements were strongest had set up preference primaries, which Roosevelt won, but Taft worked harder than Roosevelt to control the Republican Party's organizational operations and the mechanism for choosing its presidential nominee, the [[1912 Republican National Convention]]. For example, he bought up the votes of delegates from the Southern states, copying the technique Roosevelt himself used in 1904. The Republican National Convention rejected Roosevelt's protests. Roosevelt and his supporters walked out and the convention re-nominated Taft.

==New party==
The next day, Roosevelt supporters met to form a new political party of their own. California Governor [[Hiram Johnson]] became its chairman and a new convention was scheduled for August. Most of the funding came from wealthy sponsors. Magazine publisher [[Frank A. Munsey]] provided $135,000; and financier [[George Walbridge Perkins|George W. Perkins]], gave $130,000. Roosevelt's family gave $77,500 and others gave $164,000. The total was nearly $600,000, far less than the major parties.<ref>{{cite book |author=James Chace |title=1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs - The Election that Changed the Country |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_spvlO2-E4C&pg=PT250 |year=2009 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |page=250 |isbn=9781439188262}}</ref>

[[File:TR at Bull Moose convention 1912.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|right|Delegates to Bull Moose convention in 1912 resembled Roosevelt.]]
The leadership of the new party at the level just below Roosevelt included [[Jane Addams]] of [[Hull House]], a leader in social work, feminism, and pacifism;<ref>Allen F. Davis (1973). ''American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams''.  pp. 185–197.</ref> former Senator [[Albert J. Beveridge]] of Indiana, a leading advocate of regulating industry;<ref>Daniel Levine, "The social philosophy of Albert J. Beveridge." ''Indiana Magazine of History'' (1962): 101-116. [https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/download/8880/11474/ online]</ref> [[Gifford Pinchot]], a leading environmentalist.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/envhis/7.2.198?journalCode=eh | doi=10.2307/envhis/7.2.198 | title=Scientific Forestry and the Roots of the Modern American State: Gifford Pinchot's Path to Progressive Reform | journal=Environmental History | date=April 2002 | volume=7 | issue=2 | pages=198–225 | last1=Balogh | first1=Brian | bibcode=2002EnvH....7..198B | s2cid=144639845 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> and his brother [[Amos Pinchot]], enemy of the trusts. Publishers represented the [[Muckraker|Muckraker element exposing corruption in city machines]]. These included [[Frank Munsey]]<ref>Marena Cole, "A Progressive Conservative: The Roles of George Perkins and Frank Munsey in the Progressive Party Campaign of 1912." (Thesis, Tufts University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10273522).</ref> and [[Frank Knox]], who was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1936.<ref>Geoffrey Cowan (2016). ''Let the people rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the birth of the presidential primary''. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 50, 79, 127-133.</ref> The two main organizers were Senator [[Joseph M. Dixon]] of Montana and especially [[George Walbridge Perkins|George W. Perkins]], a senior partner of [[J.P. Morgan & Co.|the Morgan bank]] who came from the [[efficiency movement]]. He and Munsey provided financing while Perkins took efficient charge of the new party's organization. However, Perkins' close ties to Wall Street made him deeply distrusted by many party activists.<ref>John A. Garraty (1960). ''Right-Hand Man: The Life of George W. Perkins''.  pp. 264–284.</ref>

The new party had serious structural defects. Since it insisted on running complete tickets against the regular Republican ticket in most states, Republican politicians would have to abandon the Republican Party to support Roosevelt. The exception was California, where the progressive element took control of the Republican Party and Taft was not even on the November ballot. Nationally only five of the 15 most progressive Republican Senators joined the new party. Republican legislators, governors, national committeemen, publishers, and editors showed comparable reluctance as [[Party switching|bolting the old party]] risked career suicide. Very few Democrats ever joined the new party. However, many independent reformers still signed up. As a result, most of Roosevelt's previous political allies supported Taft, including his son-in-law, Representative [[Nicholas Longworth]] of Cincinnati. His wife [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] was Roosevelt's most energetic cheerleader. Their public dispute permanently spoiled their marriage.<ref>Stacy A. Cordery (2006). ''Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker''.  pp. 176-183.</ref>

== Progressive convention and platform ==
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{{Main|1912 Progressive National Convention}}

Despite these obstacles, the August convention opened with great enthusiasm. Over 2,000 delegates attended, including many women. In 1912, neither Taft nor Wilson endorsed women's suffrage on the national level.<ref name="Biography of TR">{{cite web |url=http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/bullmoose.htm |title=Bull Moose years of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt Association |publisher=Theodoreroosevelt.org |access-date=2012-01-06}}</ref> The notable suffragist and social worker [[Jane Addams]] gave a seconding speech for Roosevelt's nomination, but Roosevelt insisted on excluding [[Black-and-tan faction]] Republicans from the South (whom he regarded as a corrupt and ineffective element).<ref>George E. Mowry, "The South and the Progressive Lily White Party of 1912". ''Journal of Southern History'' 6#2 (1940): 237–247. {{JSTOR|2191208}}.</ref> Yet he alienated white Southern supporters, [[Lily-white movement]], on the eve of the election by publicly dining with black people at a Rhode Island hotel.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baum |first1=B. |first2=D. |last2=Harris |title=Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity |year=2009 |location=Durham |publisher=Duke University Press |page=188 |isbn=9780822344353 }}</ref><ref>Paul D. Casdorph, ''Republicans, Negroes, and Progressives in the South, 1912-1916'' (1981).</ref>

Roosevelt was nominated by acclamation, with Johnson as his running mate. The main work of the convention was the platform, which set forth the new party's appeal to the voters. It included a broad range of social and political reforms long advocated by progressives. It spoke with near-religious fervor and the candidate himself promised: "Our cause is based on the eternal principle of righteousness; and even though we, who now lead may for the time fail, in the end the cause itself shall triumph".<ref>{{cite book|author=Melanie Gustafson|title=Women and the Republican Party, 1854–1924|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OBVqL8gasbgC&pg=PA117|year=2001|page=117|publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780252093234}}</ref>

[[File:PamphletFrontPageProgressivePartyPlatform1912.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|16-page campaign booklet with the platform of the new Progressive Party]]
The platform's main theme was reversing the domination of politics by business interests, which allegedly controlled the Republican and Democratic parties alike. The platform asserted: {{blockquote|To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.<ref>{{cite news |author=Patricia O'Toole|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1207791-2,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060703102342/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1207791-2,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 3, 2006 |title="The War of 1912," ''Time'' in partnership with CNN, Jun. 25, 2006 |publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=2006-06-25 |access-date=2012-01-06}}</ref>}}

To that end, the platform called for:
* Strict limits and disclosure requirements on political [[campaign contributions]]
* Registration of lobbyists
* Recording and publication of [[Congressional committee]] proceedings

In the social sphere, the platform called for:
* A national health service to include all existing government medical agencies
* [[Social insurance]], to provide for the elderly, the unemployed, and the disabled
* Limiting the ability of judges to order [[injunctions]] to limit labor strikes
* A [[minimum wage law]] for women
* An [[Eight-hour day|eight-hour workday]]
* A federal [[securities commission]]
* Farm relief
* [[Workers' compensation]] for [[Occupational injury|work-related injuries]]
* An [[inheritance tax]]

The political reforms proposed included:
* [[Women's suffrage]]
* [[Direct election]] of [[United States Senate|senators]]
* [[Partisan primary|Primary election]]s for state and federal [[nominations]]
* Easier amending of the [[United States Constitution]]<ref>See clause # 4.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=iLdMzbv2IDQC&pg=PT305 Progressive Historians], by [[Richard Hofstadter]], "He (Goodnow) was troubled by the thought that twentieth-century United States was governed by eighteenth-century precepts, and hence was caught between a virtually unamendable Constitution and wholly unamendable judges."</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1LpOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA595 Democratic Ideals], by [[Theodore Roosevelt]], "We propose to make the process of constitutional amendment far easier, speedier, and simpler than at present."</ref>

The platform also urged states to adopt measures for "[[direct democracy]]", including:
* The [[recall election]] (citizens may remove an elected official before the end of his term)
* The [[referendum]] (citizens may decide on a law by popular vote)
* The [[Popular initiative|initiative]] (citizens may propose a law by [[petition]] and enact it by popular vote)
* Judicial recall (when a court declares a law unconstitutional, the citizens may override that ruling by popular vote)<ref>Gary Murphy,  {{"'}}Mr. Roosevelt is Guilty': Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for Constitutionalism, 1910–1912". ''Journal of American Studies'' 36#3 (2002): 441-457.</ref>

Besides these measures, the platform called for reductions in the [[tariff]] and limitations on naval armaments by international agreement. The platform also vaguely called for the creation of a national health service, making Roosevelt likely the first major politician to call for health care reform.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/progressive-platform-of-1912/|title = Progressive Party Platform of 1912}}</ref>

The biggest controversy at the convention was over the platform section dealing with trusts and monopolies. The convention approved a strong "trust-busting" plank, but Perkins had it replaced with language that spoke only of "strong [[Competition law|National regulation]]" and "permanent active [Federal] supervision" of major corporations. This retreat shocked reformers like Pinchot, who blamed it on Perkins. The result was a deep split in the new party that was never resolved.<ref>William Kolasky, "The Election of 1912: A Pivotal Moment in Antitrust History". ''Antitrust'' 25 (2010): 82+</ref>

The platform in general expressed Roosevelt's "[[New Nationalism (Theodore Roosevelt)|New Nationalism]]", an extension of his earlier philosophy of the [[Square Deal]]. He called for new restraints on the power of federal and state judges along with a strong executive to regulate industry, protect the working classes and carry on great national projects. This New Nationalism was seen as paternalistic, in direct contrast to Wilson's individualistic philosophy of "[[The New Freedom|New Freedom]]".<ref>Robert Alexander Kraig, "The 1912 Election and the Rhetorical Foundations of the Liberal State". ''Rhetoric and Public Affairs'' (2000): 363–395. {{JSTOR|41940243}}.</ref>

Roosevelt also favored a vigorous [[foreign policy]], including strong [[armed forces|military power]]. Though the platform called for limiting naval armaments, it also recommended the construction of two new battleships per year, much to the distress of outright pacifists such as Jane Addams.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gustafson|title=Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OBVqL8gasbgC&pg=PA117|year=2001|page=117|publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780252093234}}</ref>

== Elections ==
=== 1912 ===
{{See also|United States presidential election, 1912}}
[[File:TR-Chemist-1912.JPG|thumb|right|upright=0.9|Roosevelt mixing ideologies in his speeches in this 1912 editorial cartoon by Karl K. Kneecht (1883–1972) in the ''Evansville Courier'']]
[[File:Roosevelt and Johnson after nomination.jpg|thumb|upright|Roosevelt and [[Hiram Johnson]] after nomination]]
Roosevelt ran a vigorous campaign, but the campaign was short of money as the business interests which had supported Roosevelt in 1904 either backed the other candidates or stayed neutral. Roosevelt was also handicapped because he had already served nearly two full terms as president and thus was challenging the unwritten "no third term" rule.

In the end, Roosevelt fell far short of winning. He drew 4.1 million votes—27%, well behind Wilson's 42%, but ahead of Taft's 23% (6% went to [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]] [[Eugene Debs]]). Roosevelt received 88 [[Electoral College (United States)|electoral votes]], compared to 435 for Wilson and 8 for Taft.<ref>{{cite book |title=Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U. S. elections |publisher=Congressional Quarterly Inc |location=Washington, DC |year=1985 |pages=295, 348}}</ref> This was nonetheless the best showing by any third party since the modern two-party system was established in 1864. Roosevelt was the only third-party candidate to outpoll a candidate of an established party.

The Republican split was essential to allow Wilson to win the presidency.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Andrews |first=Thomas G. |title=Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-674-03101-2 |location=Cambridge |page=253 |author-link=Thomas G. Andrews (historian)}}</ref> In addition to Roosevelt's presidential campaign, hundreds of other candidates sought office as Progressives in 1912. 
Twenty-one ran for governor. Over 200 ran for [[U.S. Representative]]; the exact number is not clear because there were many Republican-Progressive fusion candidacies and some candidates ran with the labels of ''ad hoc'' groups such as "Bull Moose Republicans" or (in Pennsylvania) the "Washington Party".

On October 14, 1912, while Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was shot by [[John Flammang Schrank]], but the bullet lodged in his chest only after penetrating both his steel eyeglass case and a 50-page single-folded copy of the speech titled "''[[s:Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual|Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual]]''", he was to deliver, carried in his jacket pocket. Schrank was immediately disarmed, captured and might have been lynched had Roosevelt not shouted for Schrank to remain unharmed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/videos/the-bull-moose#the-bull-moose |title=The Bull Moose and related media|access-date=March 8, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100308145415/http://www.history.com/videos/the-bull-moose#the-bull-moose|archive-date=March 8, 2010|quote= to make sure that no violence was done.}}</ref> Roosevelt assured the crowd he was all right, then ordered police to take charge of Schrank and to make sure no violence was done to him.<ref name="remey">{{cite book |first1=Oliver E. |last1=Remey |first2= Henry F. |last2=Cochems |first3=Wheeler P. |last3=Bloodgood |title=The Attempted Assassination of Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt |publisher=The Progressive Publishing Company |location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin |year=1912 |page=192 |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21261}}</ref> As an experienced hunter and anatomist, Roosevelt correctly concluded that since he was not coughing blood, the bullet had not reached his lung and he declined suggestions to go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his [[s:I have just been shot|scheduled speech]] with blood seeping into his shirt.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/z_x26a_g.htm |title= Medical History of American Presidents |publisher= Doctor Zebra | access-date= September 14, 2010}}</ref> He spoke for 90 minutes before completing his speech and accepting medical attention. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were: "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose".<ref>{{Citation | contribution-url = http://www.historybuff.com/library/refteddy.html | contribution = Excerpt | title = [[Detroit Free Press]] | publisher = History buff | access-date = January 23, 2018 | archive-date = April 19, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150419001634/http://www.historybuff.com/library/refteddy.html | url-status = dead }}.</ref><ref name="speech">{{cite web |url=http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/site/c.elKSIdOWIiJ8H/b.9297449/k.861A/It_Takes_More_Than_That_to_Kill_a_Bull_Moose_The_Leader_and_The_Cause.htm |title=It Takes More Than That to Kill a Bull Moose: The Leader and The Cause |publisher=Theodore Roosevelt Association |access-date=October 14, 2015}}</ref> Afterwards, probes and an x-ray showed that the bullet had lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle, but did not penetrate the [[pleura]]. Doctors concluded that it would be less dangerous to leave it in place than to attempt to remove it and Roosevelt carried the bullet with him for the rest of his life.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/timeline.htm |title=Roosevelt Timeline |publisher=Theodore Roosevelt | access-date =September 14, 2010}}</ref><ref>[http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/timeline.htm Timeline of Theodore Roosevelt's Life by the Theodore Roosevelt Association<!-- bot-generated title -->] at www.theodoreroosevelt.org</ref> In later years, when asked about the bullet inside him, Roosevelt would say: "I do not mind it any more than if it were in my waistcoat pocket".<ref>Donavan, p. 119</ref>

Both Taft and Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson suspended their own campaigning until Roosevelt recovered and resumed his. When asked if the shooting would affect his election campaign, he said to the reporter "I'm fit as a bull moose", which inspired the party's emblem.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/880426-196/daily-twip---theodore-roosevelt-delivers-campaign.html |title=Daily TWiP - Theodore Roosevelt delivers campaign speech after being shot today in 1912 - NashuaTelegraph.com |access-date=November 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919221256/http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/880426-196/daily-twip---theodore-roosevelt-delivers-campaign.html |archive-date=September 19, 2015 }}</ref> He spent two weeks recuperating before returning to the campaign trail. Despite his tenacity, Roosevelt ultimately lost his bid for reelection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-10-12/news/34393389_1_bull-moose-theodore-roosevelt-san-juan-hill |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130041100/http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-10-12/news/34393389_1_bull-moose-theodore-roosevelt-san-juan-hill |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 30, 2013 |title=Justice Story: Teddy Roosevelt survives assassin when bullet hits folded speech in his pocket |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]] |access-date=October 14, 2013}}</ref>

====State and local operations====
=====Ohio=====
Ohio provided the greatest level of state activity for the new party, as well as the earliest formations.<ref>Hoyt Landon Warner, ''Progressivism in Ohio, 1897-1917'' (1964) pp 354–384.</ref> In November 1911, a group of Ohio Republicans endorsed Roosevelt for the party's nomination for president; the endorsers included James R. Garfield and Dan Hanna. This endorsement was made by leaders of President Taft's home state. Roosevelt conspicuously declined to make a statement—requested by Garfield—that he would flatly refuse a nomination. Soon thereafter, Roosevelt said, "I am really sorry for Taft... I am sure he means well, but he means well feebly, and he does not know how! He is utterly unfit for leadership and this is a time when we need leadership." In January 1912, Roosevelt declared "if the people make a draft on me I shall not decline to serve".<ref>{{cite book | author-link = H. W. Brands | last = Brands | first = Henry William | year = 1997 | title = TR: The Last Romantic | publisher = Basic Books | url = https://archive.org/details/trlastromantic00bran | isbn = 978-0-465-06958-3 |page=698}}</ref> Later that year, Roosevelt spoke before the Constitutional Convention in Ohio, openly identifying as a progressive and endorsing progressive reforms—even endorsing popular review of state judicial decisions.{{Sfn|Brands|1997|p=703}} In reaction to Roosevelt's proposals for popular overrule of court decisions, Taft said, "Such extremists are not progressives—they are political emotionalists or neurotics".{{Sfn|Brands|1997|p=709}}

The showdown came in Ohio's primary on May 21, 1912, in Taft's home state. Both the Taft and Roosevelt campaigns worked furiously, and La Follette joined in. Each team sent in big name speakers. Roosevelt's train went 1800 miles back and forth in the one state, where he made 75 speeches. Taft's train went 3000 miles criss-crossing Ohio and he made over 100 speeches. Roosevelt swept the state, convincing Roosevelt that he should intensify his campaigning, and letting Taft know he should work from the White House not the stump.<ref>Norman M. Wilensky, ''Conservatives in the Progressive Era: The Taft Republicans of 1912'' (1965) pp. 61-62.</ref><ref>Warner, ''Progressivism in Ohio, 1897-1917'' (1964) pp 354–384.</ref>

=====November 1912=====
Most of the Progressive candidates were in New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Massachusetts. Very few were in the South. In California, the state Republican Party was controlled by Governor Hiram Johnson, a close ally of Roosevelt, He became the vice presidential nominee and the ticket carried California. Only a third of the states held primaries; elsewhere the state organization chose the delegations to the national convention and they favored Taft. The final credentials of the state delegates at the national convention were determined by the national committee, which was controlled by Taft men.<ref>George E. Mowry, ''Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement'' (1946) pp. 235–239.</ref>

The Progressive candidates generally got between 10% and 30% of the vote. Nine Progressives were elected to the House and none won governorships. About 250 Progressives were elected to local offices. In November the Democrats benefitted from the Republican split—very few Democrats voted for the Progressive candidates. They gained many state legislature seats, which gave them 10 additional U.S. Senate seats—they also gained 63 U.S. House seats.<ref>''Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. elections'' (1985), pp. 489–535, 873–879</ref>

=== 1914 ===
[[File:TRoosevelt-GPinchot 1914.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.8|Roosevelt endorses Gifford Pinchot in Pennsylvania, 1914]]
Despite the second-place finish of 1912, the Progressive Party began to fade away and the Republicans regained much of their strength. One hundred thirty-eight candidates, including women,<ref>{{cite news |title=A Kansas Woman Runs for Congress |url=https://archive.org/stream/independen79v80newy#page/n54/mode/1up |newspaper=The Independent |date=Jul 13, 1914 |access-date=August 14, 2012}}</ref> ran for the U.S. House as Progressives in 1914 and five were elected. However, almost half the candidates failed to get more than 10% of the vote.<ref>''Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U. S. elections'' (1985), pp. 880–885</ref>

[[Gifford Pinchot]] placed second in the Senate election in [[1914 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], gathering 24% of the vote. Hiram Johnson was denied renomination for governor as a Republican—he ran as a Progressive and was re-elected. Seven other Progressives ran for governor; none got more than 16%.<ref>''Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U. S. elections'' (1985),  pp. 489–535</ref> Some state parties remained fairly strong. In [[Washington (U.S. state)|Washington]], Progressives won a third of the seats in the [[Washington State Legislature]].

=== 1916 ===
{{Main|1916 Progressive National Convention}}
[[Louisiana]] businessman [[John M. Parker]] ran for governor as a Progressive early in the year as the Republican Party was deeply unpopular in Louisiana. Parker got a respectable 37% of the vote and was the only Progressive to run for governor that year.<ref>''Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U. S. elections'' (1985), p. 503</ref>

Later that year, the party held its second national convention, in conjunction with the Republican National Convention as this was to facilitate a possible reconciliation. Five delegates from each convention met to negotiate and the Progressives wanted reunification with Roosevelt as nominee, which the Republicans adamantly opposed. Meanwhile, [[Charles Evans Hughes]], a moderate Progressive, became the front-runner at the Republican convention. He had been on the Supreme Court in 1912 and thus was completely neutral on the bitter debates that year. The Progressives suggested Hughes as a compromise candidate, then Roosevelt sent a message proposing conservative senator [[Henry Cabot Lodge]]. The shocked Progressives immediately nominated Roosevelt again, with Parker as the vice presidential nominee. Roosevelt refused to accept the nomination and endorsed Hughes, who was immediately approved by the Republican convention.<ref>Fred L. Israel, "Bainbridge Colby and the Progressive Party, 1914–1916". ''New York History'' 40.1 (1959): 33–46. {{JSTOR|23153527}}.</ref>

The remnants of the national Progressive party promptly disintegrated. Most Progressives reverted to the Republican Party, including Roosevelt, who stumped for Hughes; and Hiram Johnson, who was elected to the Senate as a Republican. Some leaders, such as [[Harold L. Ickes|Harold Ickes]] of Chicago, supported Wilson.

=== 1918 ===
All the remaining Progressives in Congress rejoined the Republican Party, except [[Whitmell Martin]], who became a Democrat. No candidates ran as Progressives for governor, senator or representative.

=== Later years ===
[[Robert M. La Follette Sr.]] broke bitterly with Roosevelt in 1912 and ran for president on his own ticket, the [[Progressive Party (United States, 1924)|1924 Progressive Party]], during the [[1924 United States presidential election|1924 presidential election]]. From 1916 to 1932, the Taft wing controlled the Republican Party and refused to nominate any prominent 1912 Progressives to the Republican national ticket. Finally, [[Frank Knox]] was nominated for vice president in 1936. The relative domination of the Republican Party by conservatives left many former Progressives with no real affiliation until the 1930s, when most joined the [[New Deal]] Democratic Party coalition of President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].

== Electoral history ==
=== In congressional elections ===
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=== In presidential elections ===
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!+/-
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|align=center|[[1912 United States presidential election|1912]]
|[[File:T Roosevelt.jpg|70px]]<br>[[Theodore Roosevelt]]
|[[File:Souvenir of the unveiling, dedication and presentation of the Abraham Lincoln G. A. R. memorial monument - dedicated to the veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865, at Long Beach, California, July 3rd, (14576262447).jpg|70px]]<br>[[Hiram Johnson]]
|align=center|4,122,721
|align=center|27.4
|align=left|{{Composition bar|88|531|hex=#b63434}}
|align=left|{{increase}}88
|align=left|Democratic victory
|-
|align=center|[[1916 United States presidential election|1916]]
|[[File:T Roosevelt.jpg|70px]]<br>[[Theodore Roosevelt]]<br>{{small|(refused nomination)}}
|[[File:GovJohnParker.jpg|70px]]<br>[[John M. Parker]]
|align=center|33,406
|align=center|0.2
|align=left|{{Composition bar|0|531|hex=#b63434}}
|align=left|{{decrease}}88
|align=left|Democratic victory
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== Office holders from the Progressive Party ==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Position !! Name  !! State !! Dates held office
|-
|Representative || [[James W. Bryan]] ||  [[Washington (U.S. state)|Washington]] || 1913–1915
|-
|[[Governor of Wyoming|Governor]] || [[Joseph M. Carey]] || [[Wyoming]] || 1911–1912 as a Democrat, 1912–1915 as a Progressive
|-
|Representative || [[Walter M. Chandler]] ||  [[New York (state)|New York]] || 1913–1919
|-
|Representative || [[Ira Clifton Copley]] ||  [[Illinois]] || 1915–1917 as a Progressive
|-
|State Representative || [[Bert F. Crapser]] ||  [[Michigan]] || 1913–1914
|-
|Representative || [[John Elston]] ||  [[California]] || 1915–1917 as a Progressive, 1917–1921 as a Republican
|-
|[[Lieutenant Governor of California|Lieutenant Governor]] || [[John Morton Eshleman]] || [[California]] || 1915–1917
|-
|Representative || [[Jacob Falconer]] ||  [[Washington (U.S. state)|Washington]] || 1913–1915
|-
|Representative || [[William H. Hinebaugh]] ||  [[Illinois]] || 1913–1915
|-
|Representative || [[Willis J. Hulings]] ||  [[Pennsylvania]] || 1913–1915
|-
|[[Governor of California|Governor]] || [[Hiram Johnson]] || [[California]] || 1911–1915 as a Republican, 1915–1917 as a Progressive
|-
|Representative || [[Melville Clyde Kelly]] ||  [[Pennsylvania]] || 1917–1919 as a Progressive, 1919–1935 as a Republican
|-
|Representative || [[William Josiah MacDonald|William MacDonald]] ||  [[Michigan]] || 1913–1915
|-
|Representative || [[Whitmell Martin]] ||  [[Louisiana]] || 1915–1919 as a Progressive, 1919–1929 as a Democrat
|-
|Senator || [[Miles Poindexter]] || [[Washington (U.S. state)|Washington]] || 1913–1915
|-
|Representative || [[William Stephens (American politician)|William Stephens]] ||  [[California]] || 1913–1917
|-
|Representative || [[Henry Wilson Temple]] ||  [[Pennsylvania]] || 1913–1915
|-
|Representative || [[Roy Woodruff]] ||  [[Michigan]] || 1913–1915
|-
|[[New York State Treasurer|State Treasurer]] || [[Homer D. Call]] || [[New York (state)|New York]] || 1914
|-
|[[Mayor of Syracuse, New York|Mayor]] || [[Louis Will]] || [[Syracuse, New York]] || 1914–1916
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[California Progressive Party]]
* [[Committee of 48]] <!-- Political group formed by Progressive Party people in 1919. -->
* [[Lincoln-Roosevelt League|Lincoln–Roosevelt League]], the California Progressive Party in the early 1900s
* [[Minnesota Progressive Party]]
* [[National Progressives of America]]
* [[Oregon Progressive Party]]
* [[Populist Party (United States)]]
* [[Progressive Party (United States, 1924–1934)]]
* [[Progressive Party (United States, 1948–1955)]]
* [[Vermont Progressive Party]]
* [[Wisconsin Progressive Party]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== Further reading ==
{{Refbegin|35em}}
* Broderick, Francis L. ''Progressivism at risk: Electing a President in 1912'' (Praeger, 1989).
* Chace, James. ''1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs—the Election That Changed the Country'' (2004).
* Cole, Marena. ''"A Progressive Conservative": The Roles of George Perkins and Frank Munsey in the Progressive Party Campaign of 1912'' (Thesis, Tufts University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10273522).
* Cowan, Geoffrey. ''Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary'' (2016).
* Delahaye, Claire. "The New Nationalism and Progressive Issues: The Break with Taft and the 1912 Campaign," in Serge Ricard, ed., ''A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt'' (2011) pp.&nbsp;452–467. [https://www.questia.com/library/120083904/a-companion-to-theodore-roosevelt online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214050242/https://www.questia.com/library/120083904/a-companion-to-theodore-roosevelt |date=December 14, 2020 }}.
* Flehinger, Brett. ''The 1912 Election and the Power of Progressivism: A Brief History with Documents'' (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003). 
* Gable, John A. ''The Bullmoose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party''. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1978.
* Garraty, John A. ''Right Hand Man: The Life of George W. Perkins'', (1960) [https://archive.org/details/righthandmanlife00garr online]
* Goodwin, Doris Kearns. ''The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism'' (2013)
* Gould, Lewis L. ''Four hats in the ring: The 1912 election and the birth of modern American politics'' (University Press of Kansas, 2008).
* Jensen, Richard. "Theodore Roosevelt" in ''Encyclopedia of Third Parties'' (ME Sharpe, 2000). pp.&nbsp;702–707.
* Karlin, Jules A. ''Joseph M. Dixon of Montana'' (U of Montana Publications in History, 1974) 1:130-190.
* Kraig, Robert Alexander. "The 1912 Election and the Rhetorical Foundations of the Liberal State". ''Rhetoric and Public Affairs'' (2000): 363–395. {{JSTOR|41940243}}.
* Lincoln,  A. "Theodore Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson, and the Vice-Presidential Nomination of 1912". ''Pacific Historical Review'' 29#3 (1959), pp.&nbsp;267–83. {{doi|10.2307/3636471}}.
* Milkis, Sidney M., and Daniel J. Tichenor. "{{'}}Direct Democracy' and Social Justice: The Progressive Party Campaign of 1912". ''Studies in American Political Development'' 8#2 (1994): 282–340.
* Milkis, Sidney M. ''Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy''. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
* Mowry, George E. [https://archive.org/details/TheEraOfTheodoreRoosevelt ''The Era of Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America'']. New York: Harper and Row, 1962. National survey; it is not biographical on Roosevelt.
* Mowry, George E. (1946). [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.87002 ''Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement'']. Focus on 1912.
* Ness, Immanuel, and James Ciment, eds. ''The Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America'' (3 vol.; 2000).
* Selmi, Patrick. "Jane Addams and the Progressive Party Campaign for President in 1912". ''Journal of Progressive Human Services'' 22.2 (2011): 160–190.

===State and local studies===
* Buenker, John D. ''Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform'' (1973).
* Buenker, John D. ''The History of Wisconsin, Vol. 4: The Progressive Era, 1893–1914'' (1998).
* Deverell, William, and Tom Sitton, eds. ''California Progressivism Revisited'' ( Univ of California Press, 1994). [https://books.google.com/books?id=f_NleGtjKXoC&dq=*+Deverell,+California&pg=PP15 online]
* Huthmacher, J. Joseph. "Urban Liberalism and the Age of Reform" ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 49 (1962): 231–241, {{JSTOR|1888628}}; emphasized urban, ethnic, working class support for reform
* Link, William A. ''The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880–1930'' (1992).
* Maxwell, Robert S. ''La Follette and the Rise of the Progressives in Wisconsin''. Madison, Wis.: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1956.
* Mowry, George E. ''The California Progressives'' (U of California Press, 1951). [https://archive.org/details/californiaprogre00mowr online]
* Olin, Spencer C. ''California's Prodigal Sons'' (Univ of California Press, 1968) [https://books.google.com/books?id=4vZsIlDutDgC&dq=*+Mowry+California+Progressives&pg=PP7 online]
* Pegram, Thomas R. ''Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Policy in Illinois, 1870-1922'' (U of Illinois Press, 1992). [https://books.google.com/books?id=IzeikFNF4RAC&dq=Pegram,+Partisans&pg=PR7 online]
* Recchiuti, John Louis.  ''Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City'' (2007).
* Warner, Hoyt Landon. ''Progressivism in Ohio 1897-1917'' (Ohio State UP, 1964)
* Wesser, Robert F. ''Charles Evans Hughes: politics and reform in New York, 1905–1910'' (1967).
* Wright, James. ''The Progressive Yankees: Republican Reformers in New Hampshire, 1906-1916'' (1987).

===Primary sources===
* "Progressive Party Platform of 1912" [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1912 online]
* DeWitt, Benjamin P. ''The Progressive Movement: A Non-Partisan, Comprehensive Discussion of Current Tendencies in American Politics'' (1915). [https://archive.org/details/progressivemovem00dewi  online]
* Pinchot, Amos. ''What's the Matter with America: The Meaning of the Progressive Movement and the Rise of the New Party''. (1912) [https://archive.org/details/whatsmatterwitha00pinc online]
* Pinchot, Amos. ''History of the Progressive Party, 1912–1916''. Introduction by Helene Maxwell Hooker. (New York University Press, 1958) [https://archive.org/details/historyofprogres00pinc online].
* Roosevelt, Theodore. ''Bull Moose on the Stump: The 1912 Campaign Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt'' Ed. Lewis L. Gould. (UP of Kansas, 2008).
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== External links ==
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* [https://www.ssa.gov/history/trspeech.html ADDRESS BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT Before the Convention of the National Progressive Party in Chicago, August, 1912] 
* [http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/toonsbytopic1912election.html editorial cartoons] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215010223/http://theodore-roosevelt.com/toonsbytopic1912election.html |date=February 15, 2020 }}
* [http://www.teddyroosevelt.com  TeddyRoosevelt.com: Bull Moose Information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501200959/http://www.teddyroosevelt.com/ |date=May 1, 2021 }}
* [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/26_t_roosevelt/psources/ps_trprogress.html 1912 platform of the Progressive Party] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110922203013/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/26_t_roosevelt/psources/ps_trprogress.html |date=September 22, 2011 }}
* [[iarchive:theoroos1912|Theodore Roosevelt Speech Edison Recordings Campaign - 1912]]
* [https://librivox.org/author/16872 ''1912 Progressive Party platform''] at [[LibriVox]] (public domain audiobooks)

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