Underwood sought the presidential nomination at the 1912 Democratic National Convention , but the convention selected Woodrow Wilson after forty-six ballots . He declined the vice presidential nomination , which instead went to Thomas R. Marshall . Underwood ran for president again in 1924 , entering the 1924 Democratic National Convention as a prominent conservative opponent of the Ku Klux Klan . One of the few prominent anti-Klan politicians in the South at the time , Underwood and his supporters narrowly failed to win adoption of a Democratic resolution condemning the Klan . He experienced a boomlet of support on the 101st presidential ballot of the convention , but the Democrats nominated John W. Davis as a compromise candidate . Underwood declined to run for re-election in 1926 and retired to his Woodlawn plantation in Fairfax County , Virginia , where he died in 1929
1924 Democratic National Convention
1924 Democratic National Convention
Oscar Underwood