Pinback button promoting Woodrow Wilson for president and Thomas Marshall for vice president, 1912. The Whitehead & Hoag Co., Newark, New Jersey.
At the 1912 Democratic convention in Baltimore, delegates were deadlocked over the nomination for president. It appeared that House Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri had the wind at his back until William Jennings Bryan, in the role of party elder, threw his support behind New Jersey governor Woodrow Wilson. Delegates from Indiana offered their governor, Thomas Marshall, for the vice presidential nomination, and the Wilson-Marshall ticket went on to victory in November.
We offer an original celluloid button from 1912 picturing the victorious Democrats.
