1928 United States presidential election
The 1928 United States presidential election was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 6, 1928. Republican Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Al Smith of New York. Hoover won a third straight Republican landslide and made substantial inroads in the traditionally-Democratic Solid South. Hoover was the first president born west of the Mississippi River, and he is the most recent sitting member of the Cabinet to win a presidential election.
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The 1928 United States presidential election was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 6, 1928. Republican Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Al Smith of New York. Hoover won a third straight Republican landslide and made substantial inroads in the traditionally-Democratic Solid South. Hoover was the first president born west of the Mississippi River, and he is the most recent sitting member of the Cabinet to win a presidential election. President Calvin Coolidge declined to seek reelection, so the race for the nomination was wide open. The Republican Convention was held in Kansas City, Missouri, from June 12 to 15 and nominated Hoover on the first ballot. Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson was nominated for vice-president, and Smith was the Roman Catholic to gain a major party’s nomination for president. William F. Varney was nominated by the Prohibition Party, which did not want to provide their candidate for president, and Hoover was nominated over Varney by a margin of 68–45. The Democratic nomination was won by Representative Cordell Hull of Tennessee and Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. It was the last Democratic nomination to be won by a candidate who was not a member of his party’s national executive committee. The election was also the first to be held in the aftermath of the Teapot Dome scandal, which led to the resignation of President Coolidge in January 1928, and led to his resignation from the White House the following month.
The race was closely watched by the media, with many predicting that Smith would win the election. Hoover’s victory made him the first American president born outside of the U.S. and the first Republican to be elected to a full term in office after the Civil Rights Movement of the early 20th century, and the last Republican to win the presidency after the Second World War. He is the only Republican to have been elected president in a non-interventionist era, as he was elected in a Republican-controlled Congress. Hoover is the first man to have served as president of both the United States and Great Britain in the same term. He was the second Republican to serve two terms as president, after George H.W. Bush in the second term of 1913-1914. Hoover died in office on January 25, 1929, and was succeeded by his son, George W. Bush. He died on January 26, 1929. The first president to die in office was Abraham Lincoln, who died on March 25, 1939, in a plane crash in New York City. The second president was Harry Truman, who served two terms in office from 1929-1941. The presidency was the only one to be inaugurated during the Great Depression, when the economy was in a strong state. The last president to serve a full second term was Theodore Roosevelt, who took office in 1945. The current president is the fourth Republican to hold the presidency since the end of World War II.
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