Pinback button promoting Theodore Roosevelt for president, 1916. Pilgrim Specialty Co., Malden, Mass.
Roosevelt's supporters hoped to draft him for the Republican nomination in 1916, but there was still bitterness among stalwarts over his 1912 betrayal of the party. TR later gave his endorsement to the Republican nominee, Charles Hughes.
This is one of the few pinbacks promoting Roosevelt's candidacy in 1916.
