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He Kept Us Out Of War Was Central Theme Of 1916 Campaign
In Cedar Rapids during October 1916 Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft spoke alongside William Jennings Bryan for Wilson Hughes, and Cedar Rapids voters split with Wilson carrying parts of the city while Iowa favored Hughes. Final statewide tallies showed Wilson winning 277 to 254 electoral votes with Iowa voting 221,669 for Wilson and 280,439 for Hughes.
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