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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.
Voters chose 18 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Massachusetts was won in a landslide by Republican Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, who was running against Democratic Governor James M. Cox of Ohio.
This was the first election after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the constitutional right to vote. In the presidential election, Republican senator Warren G. Harding from Ohio defeated Democratic governor James M. Cox of Ohio.
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923.A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents while in office.
Ohio was the home state of both presidential nominees, who each held a statewide elected office there at the time of the presidential election. The Republican candidate, U.S. Senator Warren G. Harding, defeated the Democratic candidate, Governor of Ohio James M. Cox, in the popular vote handily, 58.47–38.58%. [1]
On election day, Warren Harding carried California by a margin much larger than early polls predicted, winning with 66.20 percent of the vote to James Cox's 24.28 percent. Harding became the first of only two presidential nominees to sweep all of California's counties; the only other one was Franklin D. Roosevelt, the losing 1920 vice ...
Voters chose 38 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Pennsylvania overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, Senator Warren G. Harding, over the Democratic nominee, Ohio Governor James M. Cox. Harding won Pennsylvania by a landslide margin of 38.56%.
Running against the policies of incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, Harding won the popular vote by a margin of 26.2 percentage points, which remains the largest popular-vote percentage margin in presidential elections since the end of the Era of Good Feelings in the 1820s. Upon taking office, Harding instituted conservative policies ...