Kammala wannan magana: Theodore Roosevelt ya yi nasara a matsayin shugaban kasa a ranar 14 ga Satumba, 1901, bayan
An kashe William McKinley (kwanaki a cikin wa'adinsa na biyu), kuma an zabe shi zuwa cikakken lokaci a 1904. Ya ƙi neman wa'adi na uku (na biyu) a shekara ta 1908, amma ya sake gudu a zaben 1912, ya rasa Woodrow Wilson. Wilson da kansa, duk da rashin lafiyarsa bayan mummunan bugun jini, ya yi burin zama na uku. Yawancin masu ba shi shawara sun yi ƙoƙari su tabbatar masa cewa lafiyarsa ta hana wani kamfen, amma Wilson duk da haka ya nemi a sanya sunansa a matsayin dan takarar shugaban kasa a Babban Taron Demokradiyya na 1920. Shugabannin Jam'iyyar Democrat ba su yarda su goyi bayan Wilson ba, kuma an zabi James M. Cox, wanda ya rasa Warren G. Harding. Wilson ya sake yin la'akari da gudu don (ba a jere) na uku ba a 1924, yana tsara dabarun dawowarsa, amma kuma ba shi da goyon baya; ya mutu a watan Fabrairun wannan shekarar.