United States Presidential Election, 1920 (Abraham Lincoln Born in the 20th Century)

The United States presidential election of 1920 was the 34th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1920. The Republicans nominated incumbent President Robert M. La Follette from Wisconsin, while the Democrats chose newspaper publisher and Ohio Governor James M. Cox. As his running mate, Cox chose Franklin D. Roosevelt, a fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt who would be elected president himself in 1932.

Cox won a landslide victory by winning 37 states, including the first Republican victories in Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma (then the three states most recently admitted to the Union).

The election was dominated by the American social and political environment in the aftermath of World War I, which was marked by a hostile response to certain aspects of Follette's foreign policy and a massive reaction against the reformist zeal of the Progressive Era. The wartime economic boom had collapsed and the country was deep in a recession.