The 1920 United States presidential election was the 34th quadrennial presidential election. Republican Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio defeated Democratic Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. Harding’s victory margin of 26. 2% in the popular vote remains the largest popular-vote percentage margin in presidential elections since the unopposed re-election of James Monroe in 1820.
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The 1920 United States presidential election was the 34th quadrennial presidential election. Republican Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio defeated Democratic Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. The election was dominated by the American social and political environment in the aftermath of World War I. Harding’s victory margin of 26. 2% in the popular vote remains the largest popular-vote percentage margin in presidential elections since the unopposed re-election of James Monroe in 1820. Both vice presidential nominees would eventually become president in their own right: Harding would die in 1923 and be succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge, while the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Franklin D. Roosevelt, would eventually win an unprecedented four consecutive presidential elections starting in 1932. The first election after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment was the first election in which women had the right to vote in all 48 states, and the total popular vote increased dramatically, from 18. 5 million in 1916 to 26. 8 million in 1920. The results of the first Presidential Ballot were as follows: President Woodrow Wilson (D) defeated Senator Warren Harding (R) by 26.2% to 24.8%. President Herbert Hoover defeated Senator Robert M. La Follette (R-Wisconsin) by 13.8% to 13.9%. President Theodore Roosevelt defeated Senator Frank Orren Lowden (D-Illinois) by 6.8%, and Governor William Cameron Sproul (R/C) defeated Governor William Gibbs McAdoo (D/C).
President William McKinley defeated Senator William Jennings Bryan (W/D) by 2.7% to 2.4%. President William Johnson defeated Senator John C. Frémont (D), who was running as a write-in candidate, by 1.9% to 1.7%. President George H.W. Bush defeated Senator Joseph McCarthy (D, Maine) by 1%. President Harry Truman defeated Senator James A. Wilson (R, Hawaii) by 3.7%, and President Lyndon Johnson by 3%. The election took place on November 2, 1920, the first day after the end of the First World War and the start of the Second World War. The vote was also the first in which Americans could cast their ballots for the first time in the states of California, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C. The winner of the presidential election would be inaugurated on January 20, 1921. The incumbent president, Democratic President Wood Wilson, was unable to run for a third term because of ill health and unpopularity. The Democratic National Convention chose Cox, a little-known dark horse candidate from Ohio, to be the party’s presidential candidate. The Republican National Convention nominated Harding on the tenth ballot of the party convention. Harding won a landslide victory, sweeping every state outside of the South and becoming the first Republican since the end. of Reconstruction to win a former state of the Confederacy, Tennessee. Wilson was re-elected to a second term in 1921.
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