1904 Presidential Election

VAP turnout uses this page’s presidential vote total. VAP includes all residents age 21 and over, including women barred from voting in many states. VEP turnout is a separately published historical rate, using its own turnout and population estimates. These rates are not directly comparable.
29.7%
Turnout by VAP

Results of the presidential election of 1904, won by Theodore Roosevelt with 336 electoral votes.

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Theodore Roosevelt’s Cabinet

Officials who served during the 1905–1909 elected term. Years show full tenure in office, including service outside the term; acting service is identified where included. Commerce and Labor remained a combined department.

President: Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)

Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks (1905–1909)

Secretary of State: John Hay (1898–1905), Francis B. Loomis (acting) (1905–1905), Elihu Root (1905–1909), Robert Bacon (1909–1909)

Secretary of the Treasury: Leslie M. Shaw (1902–1907), George B. Cortelyou (1907–1909)

Secretary of War: William H. Taft (1904–1908), Luke E. Wright (1908–1909)

Attorney General: William H. Moody (1904–1906), Charles J. Bonaparte (1906–1909)

Postmaster General: Robert J. Wynne (1904–1905), George B. Cortelyou (1905–1907), George von L. Meyer (1907–1909)

Secretary of the Navy: Paul Morton (1904–1905), Charles J. Bonaparte (1905–1906), Victor H. Metcalf (1906–1908), Truman H. Newberry (1908–1909)

Secretary of the Interior: Ethan A. Hitchcock (1899–1907), James R. Garfield (1907–1909)

Secretary of Agriculture: James Wilson (1897–1913)

Secretary of Commerce and Labor: Victor H. Metcalf (1904–1906), Oscar S. Straus (1906–1909)

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Electoral Votes

Other color: Socialist Party (Eugene V. Debs). Left-leaning alignment. Combined Other totals include all remaining candidates.

239 to win
5,083,501 popular votes (37.6%)
Running Mate: Henry G. Davis
7,625,599 popular votes (56.4%)
Running Mate: Charles W. Fairbanks

Theodore Roosevelt easily won a term of his own, thus becoming the first “accidental” president to do so.

Presedential Election

Republican

State Electoral Votes

Alabama

11

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

9

California

10

Colorado

5

Connecticut

7

Delaware

3

District of Columbia

Florida

5

Georgia

13

Hawaii

Idaho

3

Illinois

27

Indiana

15

Iowa

13

Kansas

10

Kentucky

13

Louisiana

9

Maine

6

Maryland

7

Massachusetts

16

Michigan

14

Minnesota

11

Mississippi

10

Missouri

18

Montana

3

Nebraska

8

Nevada

3

New Hampshire

4

New Jersey

12

New Mexico

New York

39

North Carolina

12

North Dakota

4

Ohio

23

Oklahoma

Oregon

4

Pennsylvania

34

Rhode Island

4

South Carolina

9

South Dakota

4

Tennessee

12

Texas

18

Utah

3

Vermont

4

Virginia

12

Washington

5

West Virginia

7

Wisconsin

13

Wyoming

3

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