Pocket watch, William McKinley, 1900
Object Details
- Description
- The faces of the 1900 Republican candidates were featured on this pocket watch, incumbent president William McKinley on the left and his new vice-presidential running mate Theodore Roosevelt on the right. Roosevelt replaced McKinley’s first vice president, Garret Hobart, who had died in 1899. McKinley and Roosevelt defeated both the Republicans William Jennings Bryan and Adlai Stevenson and Eugene V. Debs and Job Harriman representing the Social Democratic Party.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 2015.0200.085
- catalog number
- 2015.0200.085
- accession number
- 2015.0200
- Object Name
- pocket watch
- Measurements
- overall: 7 in x 3 in x 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 7.62 cm x 1.27 cm
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- Exhibition
- American Democracy
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- used
- Political Campaigns
- Record ID
- nmah_1761732
