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| 1920 Presidential Election Chronology |
| · Jan. 1 – 18th Amendment goes into effect.
· Jan. 2-6 – Palmer raids; over 6,000 radicals arrested. · Jan. 2 – Franklin D. Roosevelt privately writes than there would be “none better” than Herbert Hoover for president. · Jan. 3 – FDR writes in Army & Navy Journal re: Navy prison policies · January- Trial of Rev. Samuel N. Kent on morals charges; Kent acquitted. · Jan. 4 – James Reynolds assumes leadership of Calvin Coolidge campaign. · Jan. 6 – Rhode Island and Kentucky ratify the 19th amendment. · Jan. 6 – William Gibbs McAdoo quits as United Artists general counsel. · Jan. 7 – Calvin Coolidge says he will not actively seek the presidency. · Jan. 7 – Governor Alfred E. Smith urges New York State Legislature to rescind ratification of 18th Amendment. · Jan. 8 - Democrats’ Jackson Day Dinner. William Jennings Bryan blasts Wilson. James Gerard praises Herbert Hoover. · Jan. 8 – Democrats decide on San Francisco as convention site. · Jan. 8 – Louis B. Wehle confers with Angus McLean re: a Herbert Hoover-FDR ticket. · Jan. 9 – Wehle confers with Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and Vance McCormick re: a Hoover-FDR ticket. · Jan. 10 – House of Representatives refuses to seat Wisconsin Socialist Congressman Victor Berger. · Jan. 10 – Louis Wehle confers with FDR regarding a Hoover-FDR ticket. · Jan. 10 – League of Nations convenes. · Jan. 12 – Oregon ratifies the 19th Amendment. · Jan. 15 – Wehle confers with House re: a Hoover-FDR ticket. · Jan. 15 – Carter Glass leaves as Secretary of the Treasury. · Jan. 16 – Indiana ratifies the 19th Amendment. · Jan. 16 – Wehle confers with Hoover. · Jan. 17 – Court of Naval Inquiry appointed to review Newport scandal. · Jan. 18 – Providence Journal publisher John Rathom telegraphs Senate Committee on Naval Affairs regarding Newport scandal. · Jan. 19 – Special Senate Committee on Naval Affairs Subcommittee appointed to investigate Newport scandal. · Jan. 20 – New Jersey Governor Edward Edwards introduces bill legalizing 5% beer. · Jan. 22 – John Rathom telegraphs FDR re: Newport navy scandal. · Jan 24 – FDR writes Captain Taussig re: homosexuals being returned to the service. · Jan. 24 – Calvin Coolidge sworn in to second term as Governor of Massachusetts. · Jan. 25 – Coolidge says he is not a candidate. · Jan. 26 – Wyoming ratifies the 19th Amendment. · Jan [date unknown] – Grayson advises Wilson to resign. · Jan. 27 - Hitchcock reservation to Article 10 rejected by Republicans. · Jan. 28 – South Carolina rejects the 19th Amendment. · Jan. 30 – Bureau of Internal Revenue issues regulations for medicinal alcohol. · Feb. 1 – FDR speech at Brooklyn Academy of Music. · Feb. 1 – Ohio governor James M. Cox announces his candidacy. · Feb. 1 - England and France declare they would accept the Senate’s reservations. · Feb. 7 – Wilson writes Secretary of State Robert Lansing re: cabinet meetings. · Feb. 7 – Nevada ratifies the 19th Amendment. · Feb. 10 - Dr. Hugh Young of Johns Hopkins announces Wilson was “organically sound, able-minded and able-bodied” · Feb. 10 – Senate Foreign Relation Committee approves of Treaty with Lodge reservations. · Feb. 10 – New Jersey ratifies the 19th Amendment. · Feb. 11 – Idaho ratifies the 19th Amendment. · Feb. 12 – Arizona and New Mexico ratify the 19th Amendment; Virginia rejects it. · Feb. 12 – FDR's former mistress Lucy Mercer marries Winthrop Rutherford. · Feb. 13 – Secretary of State Robert Lansing resigns. · Feb. 14-16 – League of Women Voters founded, Chicago · Feb. 19 - Frank Petroni found not guilty by Hammond, Indiana jury, after shooting Frank Petrich for yelling, “To hell with the United States.” · Feb. 19 – Republican National Committee announces it will accept to donations of over $1,000. · Feb. 23 – Hoover says he must no more about the parties’ platforms before choosing between them. · Feb. 24 – Herbert Hoover opts out of Georgia Democratic primary. · Feb. 24 – Maryland rejects the 19th Amendment. · Feb. 25 – Woodrow Wilson names Bainbridge Colby Secretary of State. · Feb. 26 – Herbert Hoover says he is not a candidate. · Feb. 28 – Oklahoma ratifies the 19th Amendment. · Feb. 29 – New York Times presents Daugherty’s prediction on the GOP convention. · Mar. 1 – A. Mitchell Palmer formally announces, enters Georgia primary. · Mar. 6 – Hoover declines to compete in the California Democrat primary. · Mar. 6 – The Philippine Assembly rejects woman suffrage. · Mar. 9 – Gen. Leonard Wood and Herbert Hoover win New Hampshire primaries. · Mar. 10 – West Virginia ratifies 19th amendment after State Senator Jesse A. Bloch races back from California to vote. · Mar. 12 – Seven IWW members found guilty in Centralia Massacre. · Mar. 14 – Eugene V. Debs says he accept Socialist Party presidential nomination. · Mar. 15 - Leonard Wood wins Minnesota primary, beating Harding and Hoover. · Mar. 15 - Senate defeats treaty with 15 Lodge reservations 49-35. · Mar. 16 – Senator Hiram Johnson runs unopposed in North Dakota primary. · Mar. 17 – Illinois Gov. Frank O. Lowden captures Virginia Republican convention. · Mar. 19 – U. S. Senate again rejects Treaty of Versailles (with Lodge reservations), 49-35. · Mar. 22 – Washington ratifies the 19th Amendment. · Mar. 22 – Bainbridge Colby confirmed by the Senate. · Mar. 23 – Leonard Wood wins South Dakota primary. · Mar. 24 – Capt. J. F. Lucey announces a conference of Hoover supporters will be held in Chicago. · Mar. 25 – Delaware rejects the 19th Amendment. · Mar. 25 – Woodrow Wilson confides to Grayson that he will accept a draft. · Mar. 26 – New York World charges excessive spending in Wood race. · Mar. 29 – Mississippi rejects the 19th Amendment. · Mar. 30 – Herbert Hoover wires the California Hoover Club that he will accept the GOP nomination under certain conditions. · Mar. – Charles Scribner’s & Sons publishes Lothrop Stoddard’s The Rising Tide of Color Against White Supremacy. · April 1 – New York State Assembly expels five Socialist members. · Apr. 3 – Leonard Wood endorses women’s suffrage. · Apr. 6 – Daughter born to Mr. & Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo. · Apr. 6 – Senator Robert La Follette sweeps Wisconsin primary. · Apr. 6 – Uninstructed slate wins New York State GOP Primary. · Apr. 6 – Herbert Hoover fails in attempt to register in California. · Apr. 7 – Hoover wins Michigan Democratic primary; Palmer finishes last. Johnson wins Michigan Republican primary. · Apr. 14 – Wilson presides over Cabinet for the first time since September 2, 1919. · Apr. 15 – South Braintree, Massachusetts payroll robbery and murder. · Apr. 18 – Helen Hughes, daughter of Charles Evans Hughes, dies of tuberculosis. · Apr. 20 – Senators Hiram Johnson and Gilbert Hitchcock win Nebraska primaries. · Apr. 22 –Illinois, Wisconsin primaries. Frank O. Lowden wins Illinois primary. · Apr. 23 – Hoover and Harding fare badly as Johnson wins Montana primary. · Apr. 27 – Unpledged delegates win Massachusetts GOP primary. · Apr. 27 – Wood narrowly defeats Johnson in New Jersey primary. Governor Edward Edwards unopposed in Democratic primary. · Apr. 27 – Senator Warren G. Harding narrowly defeats Leonard Wood in Ohio primary. Harry M. Daugherty loses as delegate. James M. Cox unopposed in Democratic primary. · Apr. 27 – Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama becomes new Senate Minority Leader. · May 1 – Radical unrest predicted by A. Mitchell Palmer fails to materialize. · May 2 – Brooklyn anarchist Andrea Salcedo leaps to his death, while in federal custody. · May 3 – Leonard Wood defeats Hiram Johnson in Maryland primary. · May 4 – Hiram Johnson defeats Herbert Hoover in California primary. · May 5 – Wood wins Indiana primary. Harding finishes a poor fourth. · May 5 - Nicola Sacco and BartolomeoVanzetti arrested in Bridgewater, Massachusetts for South Braintree robbery. · May 6 – Calvin Coolidge vetoes 2.75% beer bill. · May 8 – Dunn Court of Inquiry resumes hearings. · May 13 – Socialist Party nominates Eugene V. Debs for president. · May 14 – The Socialist Party votes to align itself with Lenin’s Third International. · May 14 – Harding delivers “normalcy” speech in Boston. · May 18 – Governor Sproul delegates win GOP Pennsylvania primary. · May 18 - Calvin Coolidge’s stepmother, Carrie Brown Coolidge, dies. · May 19 – Leonard Wood wins non-binding Vermont primary. · May 20 – Senate authorizes investigate on campaign finances. · May 20 - Congress ends state of war by joint resolution (vetoed by Woodrow Wilson). · May 21 – Hiram Johnson defeats wood in Oregon primary. · May 22 - First installment (“The Jew in Character and Business”) of ninety-one part series, “The International Jew: The World’s Problem” begins in Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent. · May 24 – Sen. Howard Sutherland defeats Gen. Leonard Wood in West Virginia primary. · May 29 – Woodrow Wilson pardons Kate Richards O’Hare. · May 29 – Socialist Party presidential notification of Eugene Debs. · May 30 – New York Labor Party (Farmer-Labor Party) nominates Rose Schneiderman for United States Senate and Mrs. William J. Fink for Comptroller. · June 1 – United States Supreme Court rules state referenda not part of the federal constitutional amendment process. · June 3 - American Jewish Committee telegraphs Ford protesting “The International Jew.” · June 5 – Literary Digest poll puts Warren G. Harding eighth among Republican presidential candidates, below even Calvin Coolidge and William Howard Taft. · June 7 – Harding visits mistress Nan Britton in Chicago. · June 8 – Republican National Convention opens; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge delivers keynote address. · June 8 – Louisiana Senate rejects the 19th Amendment. · June 12 – Republican Party nominates Warren G. Harding for president. · June 13 – Socialist Vice Presidential candidate Seymour Stedman opens his campaign in Chicago. · June 17 – New York World publishes interview with Wilson. · June 18 – McAdoo announces “irrevocable” decision not to seek presidency. · June 20 – Grover Cleveland Redding of the Star Order of Ethiopia shoots police officer and ignites a Chicago race riot. · June 21 - Suffragette Alice Paul visits Harding. · June 22 – Ed Scobey announces Harding slogan will be “Back to Normal.” · June 22 – New York World publishes a photo of Wilson at work. · June 23 – Tammany boss Charles F. Murphy indicted. · June 25 -Calvin Coolidge says he won’t pressure Vermont and Connecticut to ratify the 19th Amendment. · June 26 - Dearborn Independent begins serializing "The Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion. " · June 27 – Republican National Committee Chairman Will Hays meets with Carrie Phillips. · June 27 – William Gibbs McAdoo says he will accept a nomination. · June 28 - Democratic National Convention opens; FDR grabs New York delegation standard. · July 29 – Dudley Field Malone nominated by New York State Farmer-Labor Party for Governor. · June 30 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt places Al Smith in nomination. · June [date unknown] - KKK engaged two professional fundraisers: Edward Young Clarke and Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler. · July 1 – BartolomeoVanzetti convicted of Bridgewater robbery. · July 1 – Louisiana rejects the 19th Amendment. · July 1 - Jim Philips and Harding confer in Washington. · July 1 – Judson Welliver writes to Senator Borah, complaining of Harding. · July 4 – Harding and Coolidge campaign phonograph records released. · July 5 – Democratic Party nominates James M. Cox for president. · July 6 – Democratic Party nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for vice-president. · July 14 - Farmer-Labor Party nominates Parley Christensen for president and Max Hayes for vice president. · July 14 - Single Tax Party nominates Robert C. MacAuley for president. · July 10 – Warren G. Harding announces Calvin Coolidge will sit in cabinet. · July 12 – Vermont Governor Percival Clements declines to call a special legislative session to ratify the 19th Amendment. · July 16 – Vice President Thomas Marshall telegraphs congratulations to Coolidge. · July 18 – James M. Cox and FDR confer with Wilson at the White House. · July 20 – George White of Ohio replaces Homer Cummings as Democratic National Chairman. · July 22 – Prohibition Party, meeting at Omaha, nominates Aaron S. Watkins for president and D. Leigh Colvin for vice-president. · July 22 – Warren G. Harding notified of nomination at Marion, Ohio. · July 27 - Calvin Coolidge notified of nomination at Northampton, Massachusetts. · Aug. 6 – Franklin D. Roosevelt retires from the Navy Department. · Aug. 6 – Former Massachusetts Senator Murray Crane falls into a coma. · Aug. 8 – Cox official notified of nomination; Cox refuses FDR’s request to sit in on cabinet. · Aug. 10 – Marcus Garvey apologizes to New York District Attorney Swann to avoid a libel suit. · Aug. 9 – Franklin D. Roosevelt officially notified of nomination at Hyde Park · Aug. 11 – J. E. Ferguson and W. J. Hough nominated by American Party at Fort Worth. · Aug. 11 – Aaron S. Watkins receives notification of Prohibition Party nomination. · Aug. 17 – Marcus Garvey elected provisional president of Africa. · Aug. 17 – The North Carolina Senate votes to delay action on suffrage until 1921. · Aug. 18 – FDR boasts of writing Haiti’s constitution. · Aug. 18 – Delegation from the Society of American Indians meets separately with Harding and Cox. · Aug. 20 – Harding campaign announces Lillian Russell will campaign for the ticket. · Aug. 21 – FDR praises Centralia incident. · Aug. 24 – Al Jolson and “Harding and Coolidge Theatrical League of America” visit Marion, Ohio. · Aug. 28 – Tennessee ratifies the 19th Amendment. · Aug. 28 – Harding declares himself in favor of “an association of nations.” · Aug. 28 – Secretary of State Colby ratifies the 19th Amendment. · Aug. 30 – Socialist-Labor Party nominates William W. Cox and August Gillhaus. · Sept. 2 – Chicago Cubs visit Marion. · Sept. 7 – Warren Harding begins first campaign swing. · Sept. 8 - Harding addresses crowd of 40,000 at Minnesota State Fair. · Sept. 11 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti indicted for South Braintree robbery. · Sept. 14 – Connecticut ratifies the 19th Amendment. · Sept. 14 – James Wadsworth Jr. defeats Ella A. Boole for the Republican nomination for United State Senate in New York; Lt. Gov. Harry C. Walker defeats Schenectady Mayor George Lunn in the Democratic primary. · Sept. 16 – Wall Street bombed by Sacco and Vanzetti associate Michael Buda. · Sept. 18 – “Foreign Voters Day” in Marion. · Sept. 21 - Three Socialist members again expelled from New York State Assembly. · Sept. 23 – Two seated Socialists resign from New York State Assembly. · Sept. 28 – Seven White Sox players indicted for throwing the 1919 World Series. · Oct. – William Estabrook Chancellor’s handbills begin circulating re: Harding ancestry. · Oct. 2 – Senator Murray Crane dies. · Oct. 4 – Funeral of Murray Crane; Coolidge refuses to be photographed with Lodge. · Oct. 7 – Harding in Des Moines calls not for “interpretation but rejection” of the league. · Oct. 7 - Journalist John Reed dies at Moscow. · Oct. 9 – Prof. Irving Fisher organizes pro-League League Independents. · Oct. 14 - Statement of the 31 (pro-League Republicans) endorses Harding. · Oct. 24 – Republican National Committee reveals Rathom letter to FDR re: Newport navy scandals. · Oct. 25 - FDR sues John Rathom for $500,000 for criminal libel. · Oct. 26 - Archibald MacLeish and Hoover League of Harvard question Hoover: Harding and League. · Oct. 28 – Woodrow Wilson makes first statement of campaign, doesn’t mention Cox. · Oct. 28 – Calvin Coolidge campaigns in Manhattan; Grace Coolidge leads a torchlight parade in Boston. · Oct. 29 – Wooster College fires William E. Chancellor. · Oct. - Widespread nightrider raids on black-owned cotton gins reported in Georgia and Alabama. · Oct. - G. H. Putnam & Son announced plans to issue a volume called The Cause of World Unrest, treating the Protocols of Zion as genuine. · Oct. – Henry Ford issues a 25-cent, 250-page paperback version of The International Jew. · Nov. 1 – Dayton Journal sues Chancellor for libel. · Nov. 2 – Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge elected in landslide. · Nov. 2 – Pittsburgh’s KDKA broadcasts election returns. · Nov. 2 – New York Governor Alfred E. Smith and Tennessee Governor Albert H. Roberts defeated for re-election. · Nov. 2 – Second woman elected to Congress, Oklahoma’s Alice Robertson. · Nov. 2 – Texas elects its first Republican congressman, Harry McLeary Wurzbach. · Nov. 2 – Champ Clark, Victor Berger, and Cordell Hull defeated for Congress. · Nov. 2 – California referendum approves alien land bill. · Nov. 2 – Ocoee, Florida burned to ground after two black men attempt to vote. · Nov. 3 – Nan Britton meets with Harding in Marion. · Nov. 20 – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Woodrow Wilson. · Nov. 26 – Oklahoma Republican leader Jake Hamon dies of gunshot wound. · Dec. 16 – Calvin Coolidge agrees to attend Cabinet meetings. · Dec. 19 – Anti-Cigarette League asks President-Elect Harding not to use cigarettes. |
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