Oregon delegate McCamant warns us that he won't be present to the vice-presidential vote, having caught a cold yesterday while walking in Chicago streets. He won't be replaced.
Internal memo to the National Republican Convention, June, 12 1920
WIS. SEN. LENROOT TO BE HARDING'S RUNNING MATE
Chigago Tribune, June, 13 1920
...Mostly known as the protégé of his Winsconsin colleague Robert La Follette, Senator Irvine L. Lenroot was believed to be the best guarantee for the Republican Party's unity in the run for the presidency, eight years after the 1912 election split between Roosevelt and Taft and four after the narrow defeat of Progressive-minded Hughes...
Essay from a high school student, April, 8 2009
"This year's presidential ticket is the best thing that could've happened to the Grand Old Party since all these years, my dear fellows. Two Senators from the American Heartland, one Conservative and one Progressive. Does our country deserves less than a reunited leading party, after the Democrats shed the blood of our boys in Europe? My answer is no, and by God's Will, on next March, 4, Mr. Harding will join a legacy of enlightened Republican Commanders-in-Chief, from Abraham Lincoln to Th...William Taft, that have endlessly fought for the same idea: America First!"
Vice-presidential nominee Irvine L. Lenroot' speech in New York, September, 3 1920
Warren G. Harding (R-OH)/Irvine L. Lenroot (R-WI): 60,3% - 404 electoral votes - 37 states carried
James M. Cox (D-OH)/Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-NY): 34,1% - 127 electoral votes - 11 states carried
HARDING WINS BY MORE THAN 60 PER CENT OF THE ELECTORAL VOTE; EVEN TENNESSEE RALLIES
Chicago Tribune, November, 2 1920
"I, Irvine Luther Lenroot, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter."
Irvine L. Lenroot's oath of office as 29th Vice-President of the United States
"VP ON TEAPOT DOME: "HERE WE GO WITH THE CONSERVATIVE OHIO GANG!"
New York Times headline, 1922
"The news of President Harding's passing away in San Francisco, California, have just reached the East Coast. Vice-President Lenroot was among the firsts to learn the announcement since his office, and Chief Justice Taft was seen on his way to the White House. We're now expecting, here in Washington, an official statement from Mr. Lenroot who, once he has taken the oath, will become the 30th President of the United States..."
News broadcaster on radio, August, 2 1923
Irvine Lenroot, 30th President of the United States