 That summer of 1912 convention nominated him for President versus incumbent Republican 27th President William Howard Taft and former 26th President Theodore Roosevelt in a landmark U.S. Presidential Election of 1912, resulting in Democrat Wilson's election as 28th President, the first Democrat since 22nd and 24th President Grover Cleveland in the 1880s and early 1890s.The Hotel Belvedere was known as the premier lodging in Baltimore during the first half of the twentieth century, hosting American Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Woodrow Wilson, among others, along with such celebrities as Wallis Warfield Simpson (the Duchess of Windsor), (controversial wife, born and raised in Baltimore, of abdicated King Edward VIII of Great Britain in 1936-1937), General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, actor Clark Gable, and many dozens of others.Sheraton Hotels, a nationwide syndicate/chain purchased the hotel in June 1946 and operated it as the "Sheraton-Belvedere Hotel".