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The buttons featured the faces of Calvin Coolidge and Charles Dawes. Today, the mementos are rare collectibles. Crowds gathered outside the Capitol to watch the inauguration.
After Coolidge announced that "I do not choose to run" [3] for a second full term in August 1927, Hoover emerged as the frontrunner.Illinois Governor Frank Lowden, Vice President Charles Dawes, and Senators James Eli Watson of Indiana, Charles Curtis of Kansas, Guy D. Goff of West Virginia, and Frank Willis of Ohio were potential challengers to Hoover.
Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under Calvin Coolidge.
Incumbent President Calvin Coolidge was nominated for a full term and went on to win the general election. The convention nominated former Illinois Governor Frank Orren Lowden for vice president on the second ballot, but he declined the nomination. The convention then selected Charles G. Dawes.
Coolidge and Dawes won every state outside the South except Wisconsin, La Follette's home state. Coolidge won 54 percent of the popular vote, while Davis took just 28.8 percent and La Follette won 16.6 percent, one of the strongest third-party presidential showings in U.S. history.
Looks at Coolidge as a radio personality, and how radio figured in the campaign, the national conventions, and the election result. Tucker, Garland S., III. The high tide of American conservatism: Davis, Coolidge, and the 1924 election (2010) online; Unger, Nancy C. (2000). Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer. Chapel Hill ...
From March 6 to May 18, 1928, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1928 United States presidential election.The nominee was selected through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1928 Republican National Convention held from June 12 to June 15, 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri.
June 2 – Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act and the Revenue Act of 1924 into law. June 7 – Coolidge signs the Anti-Heroin Act of 1924 into law. June 10–12 – Coolidge is chosen as the 1924 presidential nominee for the Republican Party. July 7 – Coolidge's son, Calvin Coolidge Jr., dies of sepsis at the age of 16. [12]