Presidential election in the United States in 1924

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35th presidential election
November 4, 1924
			Republican Party
			Calvin Coolidge / Charles Dawes
			electors					382
			be right				15,723,789
									54.0%
			Democratic Party
			John W. Davis / Charles Bryan
			electors					136
			be right				8,386,242
									28.8%
			Progressive party
			Robert La Follette / Burton Wheeler
			electors					13
			be right				4,831,706
									16.6%
Election results by state
35 states of   Coolidge / Dawes						12 states   Davis / Bryan
1 State of   La Follette / Wheeler
President of the United States
Before the election Calvin Coolidge Republican Party						Elected Calvin Coolidge Republican Party

In the US presidential election of 1924 , the Republican Calvin Coolidge , who had assumed office since the death of Warren G. Harding in 1923, and Charles G. Dawes ran as a candidate for the vice presidency . They stood for a continuation of their economic policy, which was based on the laissez-faire theory and caused an economic boom in their first term of office. On the foreign policy front, Coolidge and Dawes continued to advocate the isolationism introduced by Harding as a turnaround to Wilsonianism . As in the 1920 presidential election , conservative celebrities from Hollywood supported the Republicans, including singer Al Jolson . It was the first election campaign in the world whose main stations were broadcast by the then new medium of radio .

For the Democrats as candidates John W. Davis , a nationally virtually unknown former Congressman from West Virginia , and as his running mate Charles W. Bryan , the governor of Nebraska . They stood for Woodrow Wilson's policies , in which the state increased taxes and regulated the economy more. In terms of foreign policy, they called for greater US involvement and entry into the League of Nations . Davis was a compromise candidate who was first nominated after the two original favorite, former Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo and Governor Al Smith of New York on a Brokered Convention in more than 100 ballots were against each other.

Despite the split of the Progressives under Robert M. La Follette , who could only win his home state Wisconsin , Calvin Coolidge managed a high victory. Under his leadership, the US achieved high economic growth and considerable population prosperity. There was also a boom in stocks, with more and more Americans speculating successfully on the stock market .

Result

Leaflets in New York during the 1924 election campaign

candidate	Political party	be right		electors
		number	percent
Calvin Coolidge	republican	15,723,789	54.0%	382
John W. Davis	democrat	8,386,242	28.8%	136
Robert M. La Follette	Progressive	4,831,706	16.6%	13
Herman P. Faris	Prohibitionist	55,951	0.2%	0
William Z. Foster	Communist	38,669	0.1%	0
Other		60,750	0.2%	0
total		29.097.107	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. 327-336 (= Chapter 37: Calvin Coolidge's Election. ).

Web links

Commons : 1924 US Presidential Election  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der deutsche Rundfunk , issue 31 of August 3, 1924, p. 1718
2. ^ Lynda Lee Kaid & Mary Christine Banwart: Election Coverage . In Christopher H. Sterling & Cary O'Dell (Eds.): The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio . Routledge, New York City 2010, ISBN 0-415-99533-7 , p. 258 .