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The 1920 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau during one month from January 5, 1920, determined the resident population of the United States to be 106,021,537, an increase of 15.0 percent over the 92,228,496 persons enumerated during the 1910 census. The 1920 Census was determined for 1 January 1920.
The state of Oklahoma historically had civil townships.On August 5, 1913, voters passed the Oklahoma Township Amendment, also known as State Question 58. [1] This allowed the creation or abolishment of townships on a county by county basis; by the mid-1930s, all Oklahoma counties had voted to abolish them. [2]
The 1920 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1920 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
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It was given an additional vote in the 1930 census, [5] which it later lost in the 1940 census. [5] The state's electoral votes were reduced to eight in the 1950 census [6] before returning to its original seven following the 2000 census. [7] In the 1960 election, Republican candidates Richard Nixon and Henry C. Lodge won Oklahoma. [8]
By the 1920 census, Commerce had a population of 2,555. The town's population has remained roughly the same size ever since. Commerce was on Route 66 when that highway was commissioned in 1926, [7] and was the first town on the route through Oklahoma after crossing the Kansas border westbound. [8]
This becomes the first census to record a population exceeding 100 million, at 106,021,537. Because there are so many mixed-race persons and because so many Americans with some black ancestry appear white, the Census Bureau stops counting mixed-race peoples and the one-drop rule becomes the national legal standard.