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 and Robert M. Lafollette, who saw him as the heir to Roosevelt's Progressive throne. Because of this Johnson easily swept through the primaries and won the nomination at the convention. Johnson decided to select Warren G. Harding of Ohio as his running mate to help unify the Progressive and Conservative wings of the party. Polls showed that Johnson had a major lead over Cox due to the unpopularity of the Wilson administration.
 
I'd always be the first person to encourage people to have a go at a timeline but this is your tenth in as many weeks. Would it not be better to focus on one idea for a while, build-up your research, and then proceed without the issue of possibly losing interest in your ideas?
 
The 1920 Presidential election was a complete blowout. Johnson ran on Wilson’s unpopularity. Harding and Johnson coined the campaign slogan “a return to normalcy”. Johnson attacked the Wilson administration on the Great War. Saying that “Under a Johnson Presidency lives will not be lost in a useless war between empires!” James Cox and his running mate John Davis could not keep up with Johnson’s impressive campaigning. However he was still unpopular in the south. The Democrats continued to control the south, even in a blowout. Johnson was also helped by women being allowed to vote for the first time. Which both Johnson and Harding supported.



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Hiram Johnson’s Cabinet

President: Hiram Johnson

Vice-President: Warren Harding

Secretary of State: Leonard Wood

Attorney General: Henry W. Anderson

Secretary of War: John W. Weeks

Secretary of Treasury: Ira Clifton Copley

Postmaster General: Hubert Work

Secretary of the Interior: Joseph M. Carey

Secretary of Agriculture: Henry C. Wallace

Secretary of Commerce: Herbert Hoover

Secretary of Labour: James J. Davis
 
In all of this, where is Charles Evans Hughes? I would have thought Wood might well have been Secretary of War, with Hughes as SecState as in Harding's original cabinet.
 
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