Video: 'Republican Convention in Chicago (1916)

(Saturday, June 10, 1916, 12:49 p.m. local time) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes of New York was nominated president today at the 1916 Republican National Convention meeting at Chicago Coliseum in Chicago.

Hughes, who led Senator John W. Weeks of Massachusetts 253.5 to 105 on the first ballot, won on the third ballot, defeating former President Theodore Roosevelt of New York (who was not a candidate) 949.5 to 18.5 votes.

The convention also nominated former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana (who served from 1905 to 1909 under Roosevelt) over former Senator Elmer E. Burkett of Nebraska on the second ballot by a vote of 863 to 108.

Hughes was the only Supreme Court Justice to be nominated for president by a major political party. And Fairbanks was the last former vice president to be nominated for vice president.

The Hughes-Fairbanks ticket would oppose Democratic incumbents Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Marshall in the United States presidential election, 1916.