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The 1900 United States elections elected the
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. The election was held during the
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. Republicans retained control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress, while third parties suffered defeats. In a re-match of the 1896 presidential election, Republican President William McKinley defeated Democratic former Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. McKinley's previous running mate, Vice President Garret Hobart, had died in office, so the Republicans nominated New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt as their vice presidential candidate. McKinley again won by a comfortable margin in both the popular vote and the electoral college, and he picked up a handful of states in the West and the Midwest. McKinley's win made him the first sitting President to win re-election since
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in
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. Republicans won minor gains in the
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, maintaining their majority. In the
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, the Democrats made moderate gains while the Populist Party lost three seats. Republicans continued to maintain a commanding majority in the chamber.


See also

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1900 United States presidential election The 1900 United States presidential election was the 29th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1900. In a re-match of the 1896 race, incumbent Republican President William McKinley defeated his Democratic challenger, ...
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1900 United States House of Representatives elections The 1900 United States House of Representatives elections were held, coinciding with the re-election of President William McKinley. McKinley's Republican Party gained thirteen seats from the Democratic Party and minor parties, cementing their ...
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1900–01 United States Senate elections The 1900–01 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states, coinciding with President William McKinley's re-election as well as the 1900 House of Representatives elections. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior ...


References


Further reading

* * * Beeby, James M. "Red Shirt Violence, Election Fraud, and the Demise of the Populist Party in North Carolina's Third Congressional District, 1900." ''North Carolina Historical Review'' 85.1 (2008): 1-28
online
* Bloch, Herman D. "The New York Afro-American's Struggle for Political Rights and the Emergence of Political Recognition, 1865–1900." ''International Review of Social History'' 13.3 (1968): 321-349
online
* Brands, Henry William. ''The reckless decade: America in the 1890s'' (U of Chicago Press, 2002). * Brown, M. Craig, and Barbara D. Warner. "Immigrants, urban politics, and policing in 1900." ''American Sociological Review'' (1992): 293-305
online
* * Connolly, James J. ''The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925'' (Harvard UP, 2009). * Fishel, Leslie H. "The Negro in Northern Politics, 1870-1900." ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 42.3 (1955): 466-489
online
* Hair, William Ivy. ''Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest: Louisiana Politics, 1877--1900'' (LSU Press, 1969). * * Hilpert, John M. (2015) ''American Cyclone: Theodore Roosevelt and His 1900 Whistle-Stop Campaign'' (U Press of Mississippi, 2015), 349 pp. * Kalisch, Philip A. "The Black Death in Chinatown: Plague and Politics in San Francisco 1900-1904." ''Arizona and the West'' 14.2 (1972): 113-136
online
* McKinney, Gordon B. ''Southern Mountain Republicans 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community'' (U North Carolina Press, 1978). * Moneyhon, Carl H. "Black Politics in Arkansas during the Gilded Age, 1876-1900." ''Arkansas Historical Quarterly'' 44.3 (1985): 222-245
online
* * Quince, Charles. ''Resistance to the Spanish-American and Philippine Wars: Anti-imperialism and the Role of the Press, 1895-1902'' (McFarland, 2017). * * Thelen, David Paul. ''The new citizenship: Origins of progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885-1900'' (U of Missouri Press, 1972). *


Primary sources

* Bryan, William Jennings. "The Election of 1900," pp. 788–80
Bryan gives his analysis of why he lost
* Stevenson, Adlai E., et al. "Bryan or McKinley? The Present Duty of American Citizens," ''The North American Review'' Vol. 171, No. 527 (Oct. 1900), pp. 433–51
in JSTOR
political statements by politicians on all sides, including Adlai E. Stevenson, B. R. Tillman, Edward M. Shepard, Richard Croker, Erving Winslow, Charles Emory Smith, G. F. Hoar, T. C. Platt, W. M. Stewart, Andrew Carnegie, and James H. Eckels 1900 elections in the United States
1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...
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