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United States presidential election of 1920
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American presidential election, 1920
United States presidential election of 1920, American presidential election, held on November 2, 1920, in which Republican Warren G. Harding defeated Democrat James M. Cox in a landslide. Well before the campaign was officially under way, it became apparent that the 1920 election would be a referendum on the policies of Pres. Woodrow Wilson. Wilson’s second term as president had attracted much criticism, beginning with the reversal of his 1916 campaign promise to keep the country out of what would later become known as World War I. His failure to involve congressional voices in his negotiation of the Treaty of ...(100 of 813 words)