Presidential election in the United States in 1920

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34th presidential election
November 2, 1920
			Republican Party
			Warren G. Harding / Calvin Coolidge
			electors					404
			be right				16,144,093
									60.3%
			Democratic Party
			James M. Cox / Franklin D. Roosevelt
			electors					127
			be right				9,139,661
									34.1%
Election results by state
37 states   Harding / Coolidge						11 states   Cox / Roosevelt
President of the United States
Before the election Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party						Elected Warren G. Harding Republican Party

In the 1920 presidential election in the United States , Democrats James Middleton Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt (later US President) were on one side , and Republicans Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge were on the other .

The Democrats stood for the continuation of the policy of Woodrow Wilson , who demanded and initiated a stronger engagement of the USA internationally. The United States should also join the League of Nations . The state should intervene and regulate in economic policy.

The Republicans demanded a return to normalcy ( back to normalcy ), ie isolationism , a no to the League of Nations , tax cuts, the state renouncing interventions in the economy, protective tariffs and consent to prohibition . At the same time they stood up for women's rights. Warren Harding wanted back to the laissez-faire principle, as it was under the William McKinley era . Coolidge later put it in his tenure as president that "the main business of the American people is business." Even Herbert Hoover , who was under Harding and Coolidge economy minister, pursued a policy based on the laissez-faire theory in his term as US President.

Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for speaking against war recruits and was running from prison. For the first time, celebrities were also involved in the election campaign. Conservative celebrities like Al Jolson , Lillian Russell , Douglas Fairbanks , Mary Pickford , Louis B. Mayer , David Wark Griffith, and Lillian Gish supported Harding. Business people like Thomas Alva Edison and Henry Ford traveled to Washington, DC to help Harding. The media also gave Harding massive support. The 1920 election was the first presidential election to be broadcast.

Result

candidate	Political party	be right		electors
		number	percent
Warren G. Harding	republican	16,144,093	60.3%	404
James M. Cox	democrat	9,139,661	34.1%	127
Eugene V. Debs	socialist	913,693	3.4%	0
Parley P. Christensen	Farmer Labor Party	265.411	1.0%	0
Aaron S. Watkins	Prohibitionist	188,787	0.7%	0
James E. Ferguson	American party	47,968	0.2%	0
William W. Cox	Socialist Labor Party	31,716	0.1%	0
Other		34,496	0.1%	0
total		26.765.180	100%	531

266 votes were necessary for the election to the president.

literature

• Donald Richard Deskins, Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2010, ISBN 978-0-472-11697-3 , pp. 316-326 (= Chapter 36: Warren G. Harding's Election. ).

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