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The incumbent in 1920, Woodrow Wilson. His second term expired at noon on March 4, 1921. Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1920. Republican senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio defeated Democratic governor James M. Cox of Ohio.
Debs ran for president in the 1920 election while imprisoned in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Campaign pins reading " For President: Convict No. 9653 " [ 55 ] accompanied his campaign. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] He received 914,191 [ 58 ] votes (3.4 percent), [ 59 ] a slightly smaller percentage than he had won in 1912, when he received 6 percent, the ...
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
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Harding ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1920, but was considered a long shot before the convention. When the leading candidates could not garner a majority, and the convention deadlocked, support for Harding increased, and he was nominated on the tenth ballot.
A founding member of the Socialist Party who had already run for president on the party’s ticket four times starting in 1900, Debs’ turning point was a June 1918 speech he gave at a rally in ...
Cox's running mate was future president, then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt. One of the better-known analyses of the 1920 election is in Irving Stone's book about defeated presidential candidates, They Also Ran. Stone rated Cox as superior in every way over Harding and claimed that Cox would have made a much better ...
Donald Trump is the first former president to be found guilty of felonies, but a US presidential run by a convicted person is not unprecedented, ... Eugene V. Debs in 1920.