Theodore Roosevelt wasn't particularly popular among the Republican party bosses, and in early 1903, there was talk of running Mark Hanna for the nomination against the young incumbent, but this did not last long; Hanna's supporters were outmaneuvered in the June 1903 Ohio state convention and "TR" was endorsed a year early. Hanna then proclaimed he wasn't running. Thus with no opposition at all (Hanna died in early 1904) Roosevelt was unanimously nominated at the convention in Chicago. Conservative Indiana senator Charles W. Fairbanks was nominated for Vice President.