John Bell received 39 votes as a Constitutional Union Party candidate in 1860. Robert LaFollette received 13 votes as a Progressive Party candidate in 1924. James G. Weaver received 22 votes as the People’s Party or “Populist” candidate in 1892. And Theodore Roosevelt received 88 votes as a Progressive or “Bull Moose” Party candidate in 1912.
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