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The 1924 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
From February 12 to June 7, 1924, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1924 United States presidential election. Only 17 states held Republican primaries that year, with most states selecting Convention delegates through caucuses and state-level conventions.
William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate, argued against condemning the Klan for fear that it would permanently split the party. Wendell Willkie, who would go on to become the Republican Party's 1940 presidential candidate, was a Democratic delegate in 1924, and he supported the proposal to condemn the KKK. The ...
Oil tycoon Edward Laurence Doheny. Sizable Democratic gains during the 1922 Midterm elections suggested to many Democrats that the nadir that they experienced immediately after the 1920 elections was ending, and that a popular candidate like William Gibbs McAdoo of California, who could draw the popular support of labor and Wilsonians, would stand an excellent chance of winning the coming ...
The 1924 United States elections were held on November 4. The Republican Party retained control of the presidency and both chambers of Congress. In the presidential election, Republican President Calvin Coolidge (who took office on August 2, 1923, upon the death of his predecessor, Warren G. Harding) was elected to serve a full term, defeating Democratic nominee, former Ambassador John W ...
From legal cases to attempted assassinations, 2024 proved to be a roller coaster in U.S. politics. Former President Donald Trump became president-elect, setting up a historic return to the White ...
A primary runoff in Georgia this week will be the latest test of voters’ willingness to back a candidate involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. In the Peach State’s 2nd ...
The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailing Democratic-Republican Party, resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party, and competing for influence in different parts of the country. The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of ...