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title: "What was the Bull Moose Party?"  
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published: 2018-10-23  
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# What was the Bull Moose Party?

What was the Bull Moose Party?\
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## Answers

### Answer by Stuti Gupta

The **[Bull Moose Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912)),** officially the **Progressive Party**, was a renegade **social group** in the [United States](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/92993/why-the-united-states-is-the-only-superpower) that supported former president Theodore Roosevelt as its democratic nominee in 1912; the group's actual title and broad ideals were resurrected 12 years later. A **National Republican Progressive League** was founded in 1911 by Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette to oppose the established **liberalism of the mainstream Republican Party**, which was headed by President William Howard Taft. The very next year, the gathering renamed itself the Progressive Party, and on August 7, 1912, it held a conference in which it selected Roosevelt for the head of state and Governor Hiram W. Johnson of California for vice president, as well as calling for a **modification of the ideological electing system and a forceful cultural legislation scheme**.

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Bull Moose, the group's famous moniker, was inspired by Roosevelt's frequent use of words '**power and vigor**' to characterize himself. He ran an enthusiastic race, and on his route to deliver a talk in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was murdered by an insane person. He continued with his [speech](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40530/what-type-of-speech-did-lyndon-b-johnson-deliver-on-march-15-1965), informing the gathering that he had a gunshot in his torso but that '**killing a Bull Moose requires more than that**.' The Bull Moose party received around a quarter of the support. As a result of this schism, Woodrow Wilson's Republicans ran **unsuccessfully** to the Democrats. After the Bull Moose Party disbanded, the Republicans reformed 4 years afterward.


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