Video: 'WILSON NOSES OUT HUGHES IN ELECTION 1916'

(Tuesday, November 7, 1916, during the 1916 presidential campaign) — Democratic incumbent President Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey was re-elected today over Republican former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes of New York, marking the first time a Democrat had won two consecutive presidential elections since Andrew Jackson in 1832.

Woodrow Wilson and his running mate, Vice President Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana, narrowly defeated Hughes and his running mate, former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana, 49.24-46.12% in the national popular vote, resulting in a 277-254 victory in the Electoral College.

Wilson and Marshall would be sworn in for their second four-year terms privately on Sunday, March 4, 1917 and publicly on Monday, March 5, 1917.

Video: 'The American Presidential Election of 1916'