1 Jan 1923 Jahr - harding dies

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When President Harding died of a heart attack in August 1923, Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascended to the Oval Office. Over the remainder of Harding’s term, Coolidge advocated limited government and tax cuts for businesses and campaigned for election in his own right in the presidential race of 1924. Democrats were deeply divided that year between rural and urban factions on issues such as prohibition and immigration restriction and deadlocked at their national convention; after 102 ballots, delegates finally nominated John W. Davis, a Wall Street lawyer. Coolidge easily defeated Davis and a third-party challenge from Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, who tried to resuscitate the Progressive Party. The 1924 Progressive platform called for stronger government regulation at home and international efforts to reduce weapons production and prevent war. “Free men of every generation,” La Follette declared in a speech, “must combat the renewed efforts of organized force and greed.” In the end, Coolidge received 15.7 million votes to Davis’s 8.4 million and La Follette’s 4.9 million.

As the progressive spirit faded and a conservative ethos grew stronger, new patterns emerged in national political life between 1919 and 1932. Antiradicalism became orthodoxy. Business and government grew closer. Lobbying grew into an established element of the legislative process. These developments would shape American politics for the remainder of the twentieth century.

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