History Brief: William Howard Taft and the Return of the Bull Moose 

Taft and the Return of the Bull Moose
When Theodore Roosevelt had been elected to his own term in office in 1904, he promised not to run for what would have been a third term in 1908. His secretary of war William Howard Taft was selected by the Republicans to run against William Jennings Bryan. Taft won easily. But Teddy would be back!