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(Tuesday, July 2, 1912, 3:30 p.m. EST) — Delegates to the 1912 Democratic National Convention, meeting at Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore, nominated Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey for President of the United States today on the 46th ballot.
The vote was never announced, for it was made unanimous before the clerk could finish counting it up, but on the last roll call, Wilson had received 990 votes to 84 for House Speaker Champ Clark.
Governor Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana was nominated for Vice President of the United States by acclamation after two ballots had been taken. On the second ballot, Marshall finished ahead of Governor John Burke of North Dakota by 644.5 to 386.33 votes.
The Wilson-Marshall ticket would face the incumbent Republican ticket of President William H. Taft and Vice President James S. Sherman (nominated in June 1912) and the Progressive ticket of former President (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate, Governor Hiram Johnson of California (nominated in August 1912), in the 1912 United States presidential election.
With the Republican Party split between the followers of Taft and Roosevelt, the Democrats would win the U.S. presidency for the first time since 1892.
