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  2. 1920 United States elections - Wikipedia

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    The 1920 United States elections was held on November 2. In the aftermath of World War I , the Republican Party re-established the dominant position it lost in the 1910 and 1912 elections. This was the first election after the ratification of the 19th Amendment , which granted women the constitutional right to vote.

  3. 1920 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    Debs received double this percentage in the election of 1912. [7] The 1920 election was Debs's fifth and last attempt to become president. [8] In 1919, members of the Socialist Party who had come from Russian language federation of the party and other more radical groups within the party started to create their own papers and membership dues ...

  4. Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    However, a suffrage amendment did not pass the House of Representatives until May 21, 1919, which was quickly followed by the Senate, on June 4, 1919. It was then submitted to the states for ratification, achieving the requisite 36 ratifications to secure adoption, and thereby went into effect, on August 18, 1920.

  5. 1920 Tennessee gubernatorial election - Wikipedia

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    This was the state's first gubernatorial election in which women could vote. [1] Before this election, Alfred A. Taylor ran for governor in 1886, which he lost to his brother. After this election, no Republican would win a Tennessee gubernatorial election until Winfield Dunn won in 1970.

  6. 1920 Missouri gubernatorial election - Wikipedia

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    This was the first Missouri gubernatorial election in which more than one million votes were cast, mostly a result of the increased turnout compared to previous elections, due to the 1919 passage and August 18, 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. [1]

  7. 1920 United States presidential election in Tennessee

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    During the period before the 1920 presidential election, Tennessee was the center of bitter debate over the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which the state, with its Democratic Party still seriously divided, [6] ultimately passed by a very close margin, 50 to 46, in the House of Representatives.

  8. 1920 United States presidential election in North Carolina

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    Although North Carolina had never given women suffrage rights at any level of government before 1919, nor did its legislature consider the Nineteenth Amendment when it passed the Federal House and Senate, during 1920 the state passed by more a more than three-to-one margin a constitutional amendment that made it the first former Confederate ...

  9. 1920 United States Senate elections - Wikipedia

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    The 1920 United States Senate elections were elections for the United States Senate that coincided with the presidential election of Warren G. Harding. The 32 seats of Class 3 were contested in regular elections, and special elections were held to fill vacancies.