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Third party presence in presidential races through history
A survey of how third party movements from 1812 to 1936 influenced elections. It traces insurgent groups like the Anti Masonic party the Know Nothings the Free Soil and Liberty parties the Republicans the Greenback and Populist movements and the 1912 Bull Moose split noting how these forces affected electoral votes and outcomes and foreshadowing 1936 dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Party
William Lemke
Peace Party
New England
England
Peoples Party
Liberty Party
James G. Birney
Kentucky
Harrison
van Buren
Birney
Lewis Cass
Michigan
Baltimore
Utica
N. Y
Martin van Buren
Buffalo
Free Soil Party
New York
Zachary Taylor
Cass
Free Soilers
John P. Hale
New Hampshire
Free Soil
Winfield Scott
Franklin Pierce
Native American Party
Know-Nothings
New York City
Forties
Ireland
Supreme Order of the Star Spangled Banket
Philadelphia
Henry Dearborn
Mally
Know - Nothings
New Republican Party
John C. Fremont
Fremont
American Party
Millard Fillmore
A. J. Donelson
Tennessee
James Buchanan
Fillmore
Maryland
Stephen A. Douglas
Illinois
John C. Breckenridge
Buchanan
Breckenridge
Douglas
James B. Weaver
Iowa
Grant
Greenback Party
Peter Cooper
Greenbackers
Weaver
People’s Party
Kansas
Nebraska
Congress
Greenback
Democratic Party
William Jennings Bryan
Thomas E. Watson
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Taft
Progressive Party
Robert M. LaFollette
Wisconsin
Calvin Coolidge
John W. Davis la Folletters
White House
Union