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1920 Presidential Election

61,495,000

Voting Age Population

43.5%

Turnout by VAP

Results of the presidential election of 1920, won by Warren G. Harding with 404 electoral votes.

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Warren G. Harding's Cabinet

President: Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)

Vice President: Calvin Coolidge (1921-1923)

Secretary of State: Charles Evans Hughes (1921-1923)

Secretary of the Treasury: Andrew Mellon (1921-1923)

Secretary of War: John W. Weeks (1921-1923)

Attorney General: Harry M. Daugherty (1921-1923)

Postmaster General: Will H. Hays (1921-1922), Hubert Work (1922-1923), Harry S. New (1923-1923)

Secretary of the Navy: Edwin Denby (1921-1923)

Secretary of the Interior: Albert B. Fall (1921-1923), Hubert Work (1923-1923)

Secretary of Agriculture: Henry Cantwell Wallace (1921-1923)

Secretary of Commerce: Herbert Hoover (1921-1923)

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1920 Candidate Electoral Votes

127

James M. Cox

404

Warren G. Harding

267 to win

9,134,074 popular votes (34.1%)
Running Mate: Franklin D. Roosevelt

16,151,916 popular votes (60.3%)
Running Mate: Calvin Coolidge

19th Amendment ratified in this cycle: Women are allowed to vote. Harding died on August 2, 1923, replaced by Calvin Coolidge.

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