If Teddy Roosevelt Ran For President in 1920(and won)?

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So there was talk that he was going to run for office in 1920, but died in 1919. If this Rough Ryder ran for office in 1920, and presumably won, how do you think his term would play out? We he bring the nation "back to normalcy" after World War 1? If he runs again and wins, do you think he'd be able to prevent the Great Depression from happening?

Thoughts?
 
He would face a conservative Congress and public. hHow healthy would he be? wWould Vice President take office in 1923?
 
Given how poor Teddy's health was in 1918-19, in real life, it's almost ASB to have him live long enough to run and win in 1920. You'd have to butterfly away his trip to the Amazon, where he caught the malaria which weakened him for the rest of his life.
 
My guess is that his reputation would fall in the minds of Historians. As noted, TR would probably die in office and whatever Progressive agenda he wanted to pursue would fall flat in Congress. Also, would he have have run as a Republican or again as the leader of his own Progressive Party? Would the Progressives win seats in Congress formerly held by Republicans or Demcrats. Unless his 1920 Election cemented the role of the Progressive Bull Moose Party as one of the two main parties in the US, the end result would be that he is remembered as a somewhat sad political figure who attempted to soldier on well past his prime, whose final term failures and necessary compromises undercut some of the progressive advances he secured in his first. He'd still get an aircraft carrier named after him though.
 
My guess is that his reputation would fall in the minds of Historians. As noted, TR would probably die in office and whatever Progressive agenda he wanted to pursue would fall flat in Congress. Also, would he have have run as a Republican or again as the leader of his own Progressive Party?

As a Republican - Bull Moose was as dead as mutton.

Had TR tried a third-party run, he'd have cut into Harding's popular vote - but probably into Cox's as well, assuming the latter retained, OTL, quite a few Democrats who were fed up with the Wilson years but unwilling to vote Republican. I'm not sure he'd have got any electoral votes, though, and in any event Harding would have won.
 
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Given how poor Teddy's health was in 1918-19, in real life, it's almost ASB to have him live long enough to run and win in 1920. You'd have to butterfly away his trip to the Amazon, where he caught the malaria which weakened him for the rest of his life.

I think him skipping the trip to Brazil is the POD here.
 
And having his son survive World War I. I think skipping that Brazil trip and having his son live can probably extend his life 10-15 years.
 
A heathier T.R. could have run and won in 1920. The Brazil trip in 1914 broke his health, and contributed to his early at age 60 in janaury of 1919.

Given the lack of a clear Republcian front-runner after his death, it is likely that Roosevet would have been nominated by the Republican Party in 1920. Given the actual Republcian landslide under the previously little-known Warren G. Harding in 1920, one could expect Roosevelt to win handily that year as well.

As for running mates.Franklin Roosevelt doesn't make it onto the Democratic ticket led by Govrenor James Cox. T.R. is probably paired with a midwesterner, such as Warren Harding of Ohio.

Another T.R. presidency starting in 1921 would be very different than that of 1901-09. Ironically, the United States might have joined the League of Nations under President T.R., albeit with the reservations sought by T.R.'s old friend Senator Lodge. A conservatove pst-war Congress would have stymied further progressive reform.
 
As a Republican - Bull Moose was as dead as mutton.

Had TR tried a third-party run, he'd have cut into Harding's popular vote - but probably into Cox's as well, assuming the latter retained, OTL, quite a few Democrats who were fed up with the Wilson years but unwilling to vote Republican. I'm not sure he'd have got any electoral votes, though, and in any event Harding would have won.

TR was the frontrunner in 1920. Only his death stopped another term. He would probably die early on to be succeeded by his VP (probably Warren Harding).

He wouldn't win nearly as much as Harding because TR wouldn't get support from Germans and Irish who felt betrayed by Wilson. But they aren't going to vote Democratic, either. Perhaps this is Debs' big break?
 
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