1920 election

The 1920 Presidential Election was perhaps the one time pre-WW2 that I legitimately believe we could've seen both major political parties fracture into multiple new parties leading to a deadlocked election in the Electoral College. The challenge here is simple : Make that belief a legitimate...

The challenge here, should you choose to accept it, is to have the 1920 Presidential Election lead to the two major Parties falling out of favor and being replaced by a Conservative and Progressive Party. A starting off point for this could be at the convention for the Democratic Party, a...

IOTL, incumbent President Woodrow Wilson won an extremely narrow victory against Republican nominee and Associate Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Hughes came within 4,000 votes of winning the state of California, which alone would have swung the election to Hughes. The 1916 Presidential Election...

Say that instead of holding on until 1923, Woodrow Wilson dies soon after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. What are the immediate impacts of this, and who is likely to win the 1920 Democratic nomination now that Wilson’s endorsement is not longer holding McAdoo back?

I am currently working on a timeline in which Philander C. Knox gains the Republican nomination for president in 1920. He would die on January 21st of the next year. The electoral college votes would have already been counted, yet there would be no president elect. Given that the 20th amendment...

It's not often paid attention, but in August 1920, ex-president (and future supreme court chief justice) William Howard Taft came close to a gruesome death. Carl Panzram, a serial killer and rapist with a talent for grudge-holding, invaded Taft's home to gain revenge for his first prison...

During the Progressive era, many politicians began to feel the need for a national primary system. Such a system would involve holding all presidential primaries on the same day - as opposed to the current system where the primaries and caucuses are held over a period of many months. In 1915...

There's a general opinion on this forum that had Hughes beaten Wilson in 1916 and taken the US into WW1, he would most likely have lost in 1920 due to the bad economy, rioting, and backlash against internationalism that plagued Wilson and helped elect Harding by a wide margin. However, was there...

On January sixth 1919 Theodore Roosevelt would be hospilitized due to a blood clot. Roosevelt had already been suffering through health problems, so he decided against running in 1920. Roosevelt endorsed his former running mate Hiram Johnson. Johnson also received endorsements from Lenard Wood...