1920 United States presidential election
The 1920 United States presidential election was the 34th election in the history of the United States. It occurred on November 2, 1920. This election was between Governor of Ohio James M. Cox and U.S Senator from Ohio Warren G. Harding. Harding won the election by 404 electoral votes, while James M. Cox got only 127 electoral votes.
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531 members of the Electoral College 266 electoral votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 49.2%[1] 12.6 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ElectoralCollege1920.svg Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Harding/Coolidge, blue denotes those won by Cox/Roosevelt. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This election would be historic as almost every candidate would later serve as President, as Harding served from 1921-1923, Coolidge from 1923-1929, and Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945.
Candidates:
Republican Party:
- Warren G. Harding, Senator from Ohio (1915-1921) (Nominee)
- Hiram Johnson, Senator of California (1917-1945)
- Leonard Wood, Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1910-1914)
- Frank O. Lowden, Governor of Illinois (1917-1921)
- Miles Poindexter, Senator from Washington (1911-1923)
- Herbert Hoover, Businessman and former Director of the U.S. Food Administration (1908-1926) (Elected in 1928)
Senator
Warren G. Harding
from Ohio
(1915–1921)Senator
Hiram Johnson
from California
(1917–1945)
Democratic Party:
- James M. Cox, Governor from Ohio (1913-1915; 1917-1921) (Nominee)
- William Gibbs McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury (1913-1918)
- A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General of the United States (1919-1921)
- Al Smith, Governor of New York (1919-1920; 1923-1928) (1928 Nominee)
- John W. Davis, former US Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1918-1921) (1924 Nominee)
- Edward I. Edwards, Governor of New Jersey (1920-1923)
- Robert Latham Owen, Senator from Oklahoma (1907-1925)
- Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice-President of the United States (1913-1921) (Not formally nominated)
- Edwin T. Meredith, former Secretary of Agriculture (1920-1921)
- Homer Stille Cummings, chair of the Democratic National Committee (1919-1920)
- Carter Glass, Senator from Virginia (1920-1946)
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons, Senator from North Carolina (1901-1931)
- James W. Gerard, former US Ambassador to Germany (1913-1917)
- Gilbert Hitchcock, Senator from Nebraska (1911-1923)
- Francis Burton Harrison, Governor-General of the Phillipines (1913-1921)
1920 United States Presidential Election Media
Woodrow Wilson, the incumbent president in 1920, whose term expired on March 4, 1921
References
- ↑ "National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present". United States Election Project. CQ Press.