Progressive Party (United States, 1912)
The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé, incumbent President William Howard Taft. The new party was known for taking advanced positions on progressive reforms and attracting some leading reformers. After the party's defeat in the 1912 presidential election, it went into rapid decline, disappearing by 1918. The Progressive Party was popularly nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party" since Roosevelt often said that he felt "strong as a bull moose" both before and after an assassination attempt on the campaign trail.
Charles Bull (politician)
He was born at Liverpool to wheelwright William Bull and Catherine Anne Rowley. A solicitor from 1873, he married Mary Susannah Morris on 2 December 1871 at Campbelltown; they had four sons. His second marriage, also at Campbelltown and held on 9 July 1881, was to Fanny Chippindall, with whom he had eleven children. In 1895 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Camden, but he was defeated after a single term in 1898. Bull died at Bexley in 1906.