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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. List of United States presidential candidates - Wikipedia

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    If no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote, the winner is determined through a contingent election held in the United States House of Representatives; this situation has occurred twice in U.S. history. The procedures governing presidential elections were changed significantly with the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment in 1804 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Marie Ruoff Byrum - Wikipedia

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    Missouri had ratified the amendment in 1919, but only to allow women to vote in a U.S. presidential election. [3] The 19th Amendment was certified on August 26, 1920; the election for a local alderman on August 31, 1920, was the first election for office after Missouri, and all other states, were required to abide by a constitutional ...

  7. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [4] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ...