Term: Election of 1908  (scroll down for definition)

Definition:

Theodore Roosevelt went to Africa to hunt. He threw his weight (no pun intended) behind William Howard Taft (Republican). Yes, Taft's the big guy who got stuck in the bathtub. He was also the only President to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Oh, he also invented the 7th inning stretch by standing his rotund body up late in a baseball game.  Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan to take the White House.

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