A reluctant candidate for governorSourced
A party nominated a man who said he had tried to avoid the nomination.
In Michigan in 1912, L. Whitney Watkins preferred another candidate for governor and said he had sought to avoid running. The Bull Moose Party nominated him anyway; he finished third in the election.
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