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By 1920, World War I was over. The wartime boom had collapsed. Diplomats and politicians were arguing over peace treaties and the question of America's entry into the League of Nations. Overseas there were wars and revolutions; at home there were strikes, riots, and a growing fear of radicals and terrorists. Disillusionment was in the air.
The giants who had dominated the political scene for a generation were gone -- Theodore Roosevelt died in 1919 and Woodrow Wilson was a broken invalid living in seclusion. Even so, the presidential election of 1920 continued the debate between the nationalistic activism of Roosevelt's presidency and the global idealism of Wilson's administration.
On June 8, 1920, the Republican National Convention meeting in Chicago nominated Warren G. Harding, an Ohio newspaper editor and United States Senator, to run for president with Calvin Coolidge, governor of Massachusetts, as his running mate. Harding was a compromise candidate after the convention deadlocked between General Leonard WoodLeonard Wood ( October 9, 1860 August 7, 1927) was a physician who served as the US Army Chief of Staff and Governor General of the Philippines. He later became a recipient of the Medal of Honor. Biography Born in Winchester, New Hampshire, he attended Pi and Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. Harding campaigned as advocating, in his own phrase, "A Return to Normalcy" ("normalcy" was a corruption of "normality" and later became part of the American dialect) after the trying times of the World War.
The Democrats, meeting in San FranciscoFor other meanings, see San Francisco (disambiguation). Bay Bridge. In the distance is fog covering the western third of the city. Click for additional information The City and County of San Francisco (population 776,773), the fourth-largest city in the s, nominated another newspaper editor from Ohio, Governor James M. CoxJames Middleton Cox ( March 31, 1870 July 15, 1957) was a Governor of Ohio, U. Representative from Ohio and a candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920. Cox practiced a variety of trades throughout his life: high school teacher,, as their presidential candidate, and thirty-seven-year-old Undersecretary of the Navy Franklin Delano RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt Order 32nd President Term of Office March 4, 1933 April 12, 1945 Predecessor Herbert Hoover Successor Harry S. Truman Date of Birth January 30, 1882 Place of Birth Hyde Park, New York Date of Death April 12, 1945 Place of Death W, a distant cousin of the late president Teddy Roosevelt, for vice president.
Even though he was incapacitated, Woodrow Wilson did not run because he had been elected twice, following the two-term tradition George WashingtonGeorge Washington ( February 22, 1732— December 14, 1799), also called Father of his Country 1 was an American general and Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 1783) and later the first President of the Unite started.