The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3, 1908. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, to become his successor.
Davis was born in Washington, D.C, to Louis P.H. Davis and Henrietta Stewart Davis. His father was a messenger for the interior Department and his mother was a nurse. Davis attended M Street High School in Washington, D.C., but during his senior year, he took classes at Howard University
In January of 1848, the Gold Rush began in California causing thousands of people to migrate west.
