Theodore Roosevelt was known as the "Accidental President" because he took office when President William McKinley suddenly died in September 1901. At forty-two years old, he was at that time the youngest man to ever assume the presidency. During the 1904 campaign, Roosevelt boasted that he had worked in the anthracite coal strike to provide everyone with a "square deal." In his second term, he set out to extend this square deal further. One of his first …
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…and we battle for the Lord." The next day, he led his supporters out of the convention, and out of the party. Roosevelt summoned his supporters back to Chicago in August for another convention, this one to launch the new Progressive Party and nominate himself as it's presidential candidate. Roosevelt approached the battle feeling, as he put it, "fit as a bull moose", thus giving his new party an enduring nickname, The Bull Moose Party.