Upon his retirement from the service, U.S. Army general Leonard Wood entered the political arena. He was urged into running by the family and supporters of his old friend Theodore Roosevelt, who had himself been considering another campaign before his illness and death in 1919. Wood was triumphant the New Hampshire primary, but his political inexperience, and strong support for the anti-Communist policies of the Wilson administration, allowed his rivals at the convention to out-maneuver him. When the convention deadlocked, the nomination went to Warren G. Harding.