1920-1929 - A Return to Normalcy
Date | Event |
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January 1, 1920 |
Presedential Elections: Popular Vote Electoral VoteWarren G. Harding (Republican) 60.4 404 |
January 1, 1920 |
due to census anomalies,House Census Committee recommends extending membership to 483 |
January 1, 1920 |
Alfred Smith defeated for reelection in New York |
January 1, 1920 |
Senate agrees to abolish forty-one standing committees |
March 20, 1920 |
Peace treaty struck down again as it fails the vote |
May 1, 1920 |
Socialist convention at New York,Debs nominated from prison |
June 8, 1920 |
Republicans hold gathering in Chicago |
June 28, 1920 |
Democrats hold convention in Chicago,pass Wilsonian platform |
November 19, 1920 |
Senate rejects peace treaty after Wilson refuses modifications |
January 1, 1921 |
Budget and Accounting Act passed |
May 1, 1921 |
Supreme Court overturns Newberry's conviction |
January 1, 1922 |
House elections reduce Republican margin to fifteen |
January 1, 1922 |
House Rules Committee Chairman Campbell defeated |
January 1, 1922 |
Newberry resigns from Senate |
January 1, 1922 |
bonus bill passes in Congress and is vetoed |
January 1, 1922 |
Conference for Progressive Political Action founded |
November 21, 1922 |
Rebecca Latimer Felton elected governor of Georgia |
January 1, 1923 |
magazine article states that Harding never had intentions of joining League of Nations |
June 1, 1923 |
President Harding sets out on transcontinental trip |
August 2, 1923 |
President Harding dies |
November 21, 1923 |
Rebecca Latimer Felton elected governor of Georgia |
January 1, 1924 |
Presedential Elections: Popular Vote Electoral VoteCalvin Coolidge (Republican) 54 382 |
January 1, 1924 |
Longworth pushes through a change in rules governing petitions |
January 1, 1924 |
Rep. Haugen and Sen. McNary promote purchasing and selling of agricultural products |
June 24, 1924 |
Democratic national convention at Madison Square Gardens |
July 4, 1924 |
La Follette named for nomination by gathering of progressive groups |
January 1, 1925 |
Senate agrees to revise the Federal Corrupt Practices Act |
June 1, 1925 |
Robert La Follette dies |
January 1, 1926 |
Smith and Vare campaigns spurs Senate investigations |
January 1, 1927 |
McNary-Haugen bill passes,and is vetoed |
January 1, 1927 |
Supreme Court strengthens investigations with McGrain v. Daugherty |
August 3, 1927 |
Coolidge announces he will not run again |
January 1, 1928 |
Presedential Elections: Popular Vote Electoral VoteHerbert C. Hoover (Republican) 58.2 444 |
June 12, 1928 |
Republican convention held in Kansas City |
June 26, 1928 |
Democratic convention held in Houston |
January 1, 1929 |
Agricultural Marketing Act fails |
January 1, 1929 |
Senate launches investigation related to maintenance of prerogatives |
January 1, 1929 |
Congress passes bill to establish an automatic reapportionment |
January 1, 1929 |
Senate censures Connecticut's Hiram Bingham for placing a lobbyist on payroll |
October 1, 1929 |
Stock market crash |