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After a bitter fight with [[Theodore Roosevelt]] for control of the [[New York]] [[Republican Party]], one that contributed to [[Theodore Roosevelt|Roosevelt]]'s establishment of the [[Bull Moose Party]], [[James Sherman|Sherman]] found [[William Taft|President William Howard Taft]] and himself fighting a three way battle for reelection in 1912. [[James Sherman|Sherman]] passed away on October 20, 1912, days before election day. His electoral votes were given to Nicolas Murray Butler, then President of [[Columbia University]] <ref>[The Tribune Almanac and Political Register by Horace Greeley, John Fitch Cleveland, F. J. Ottarson, Alexander Jacob Schem, Edward McPherson, Henry Eckford Rhoades, Published 1914]</ref> .
After a bitter fight with [[Theodore Roosevelt]] for control of the [[New York]] [[Republican Party]], one that contributed to [[Theodore Roosevelt|Roosevelt]]'s establishment of the [[Bull Moose Party]], [[James Sherman|Sherman]] found [[William Taft|President William Howard Taft]] and himself fighting a three way battle for reelection in 1912. [[James Sherman|Sherman]] passed away on October 20, 1912, days before election day. His electoral votes were given to Nicolas Murray Butler, then President of [[Columbia University]] <ref>[The Tribune Almanac and Political Register by Horace Greeley, John Fitch Cleveland, F. J. Ottarson, Alexander Jacob Schem, Edward McPherson, Henry Eckford Rhoades, Published 1914]</ref> .
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