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Who overshadowed his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1912?
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
William McKinney
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Theodore Roosevelt overshadowed his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1912. Roosevelt was a former president who had been popular in the Republican Party. He had left the presidency in 1909, but he remained active in politics. In 1912, he announced that he would run for president again. However, he was not the only Republican who wanted to be president.
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