He led on the first four ballots and never fell below second place.

He led on the first four ballots and never fell below second place.

At the Republican National Convention in 1920 he received a few votes on all ten ballots for president.

At the Democratic Convention for the nomination of a presidential candidate held at Baltimore in 1912, he led on 27 ballots, and had a clear majority on eight, but he was finally defeated by Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey.

In the Democratic convention, though he had a majority of the votes, he did not have the twothirds which the rule of the convention required, and after eight ballots his name was withdrawn.