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(Saturday, June 22, 1912, 9:28 p.m. CST) — Amid scenes of turbulence and disorder, which at times bordered upon a riot, U.S. President William H. Taft was nominated for a second term of office tonight by delegates at the 1912 Republican National Convention at Chicago Coliseum in Chicago, Illinois, defeating former President Theodore Roosevelt.

Taft won the nomination by 561-107 votes (344 delegates, primarily Roosevelt supporters, refused, out of protest, to participate), even though Roosevelt had won 9 out of 12 state primaries (8 by landslide margins). Robert M. La Follette got 41 and Albert B. Cummins 17.

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For the vice presidency, incumbent James S. Sherman defeated U.S. Senator William Borah of Idaho 597-21 votes.

Roosevelt left the convention and proposed to form a new Progressive Party, which nominated him for president and Governor Hiram Johnson of California as his vice presidential running mate in Aug. 1912.

The Taft-Sherman ticket would also face the Democratic ticket of Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey for president and Governor Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana for vice president in the 1912 United States presidential election.