U.S. presidential election 1920

The U.S. presidential election of 1920 was dominated by the aftermath of World War I. The wartime boom had collapsed. Diplomats and politicians were arguing over peace treaties and the question of America's entry into the League of Nations. Overseas there were wars and revolutions; at home there were strikes, riots, and a growing fear of radicals and terrorists. Disillusionment was in the air. The giants who had dominated the political scene for a generation were gone -- Theodore Roosevelt, who had intended to run for president ...

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• U.S. presidential election 1920 - Nominations
• U.S. presidential election 1920 - Republican Party nomination
• U.S. presidential election 1920 - Democratic Party nomination
• U.S. presidential election 1920 - Other nominations
• U.S. presidential election 1920 - General election
• U.S. presidential election 1920 - Campaign
• U.S. presidential election 1920 - Results

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U.S. presidential election 1920 - Republican Party nomination. On June 8, 1920, the Republican National Convention meeting in Chicago nominated Warren G. Harding, an Ohio newspaper editor and United States Senator, to run for president with Calvin Coolidge, governor of Massachusetts, as his running mate. Harding was a compromise candidate after the convention deadlocked between General Leonard Wood and Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. Harding campaigned as advocating, in his own phrase, "A Return to Normalcy" ("normalcy" was a corruption of "normality" and later became part of ...

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U.S. presidential election 1920 - Campaign. The election was primarily decided by the unpopularity of Wilson and the League of Nations. Harding allied himself with the America First movement which eschewed internationalism. Cox campaigned on a platform advocating additional social reforms to address the economic slump following World War I. Cox pursued a campaign strategy that took him to the people for rallies, train station speeches, and formal addresses. While Harding did give seventeen speeches via rail trave ...

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U.S. presidential election 1920, U.S. presidential election 1920 - Nominations, U.S. presidential election 1920 - Republican Party nomination, U.S. presidential election 1920 - Democratic Party nomination, U.S. presidential election 1920 - Other nominations, U.S. presidential election 1920 - General election, U.S. presidential election 1920 - Campaign, U.S. presidential election 1920 - Results

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