Hotel in Chicago, Illinois and nominates Robert Colvin Macauley Jr. for President.

August 20, 1920:The Harding campaign announces Lillian Russell will campaign for the Republican ticket, shows a support of women’s rights, in the first Presidential election, where women are universally allowed to vote.

Harding’s front porch campaign in Marion, Ohio, received widespread coverage in the newspapers; otherwise Harding did very little campaigning/stumping, gave some ghostwritten speeches.

August 26, 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment officially becomes law, grants women the right to vote.

August 28, 1920: “In a speech given from his front porch in Marion, Ohio, Harding denounces the League of Nations.” Republicans divided about the League of Nations, Harding, ambiguously, supports an “association of nations.”

September 7, 1920:Warren Harding begins first campaign tour.

September 8, 1920:Harding addresses 40,000 people at Minnesota State Fair.

Bothto take public notice of the “whispering campaign.”” (NYT)

November 2, 1920, Election Day, Republicans Warren G. Harding is elected President, and Calvin Coolidge is elected Vice President

January 10, 1921: Presidential Electors cast the electoral vote in their state capitols.

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Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS is a journalist, librarian, editor, & historian. She has a BA in History & Art History, and a Masters in Library and Information Studies both from McGill University, and has done graduate work in Jewish history at Concordia University as part of the MA in Judaic Studies. She wrote regularly about politics, news, education, and Judaism for Examiner.com until the publication closed in July 2016. She is the editor of History Musings... History, News & Politics, which covers the Presidency, Congress, and