United States presidential election in Connecticut, 1924
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The 1924 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the
1924 United States presidential election The 1924 United States presidential election was the 35th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1924. In a three-way contest, incumbent Republican President Calvin Coolidge won election to a full term. Coolidge had bee ...
which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Connecticut voted for the Republican nominee, incumbent President
Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; ; July 4, 1872January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a History of the Republican Party (United States), Republican lawyer ...
of Massachusetts, over the Democratic nominee, Ambassador John W. Davis of West Virginia. Coolidge ran with former Budget Director Charles G. Dawes of Illinois, while Davis ran with Governor
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of Nebraska. Also in the running that year was the Progressive Party nominee,
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Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin and his running mate Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana. La Follette’s support base was primarily among rural
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and Scandinavian Americans, and he possessed little appeal in the Northeast outside a few New York and Boston anti-Prohibition precincts. Coolidge won Connecticut by a margin of 34.01%. His victory was also enjoyed a unique personal popularity which helped him in the state and the rest of New England. He was the epitome of a traditional New England Yankee, having been born in the small-town of
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, and establishing his political career nearby as Governor of Massachusetts. Thus Coolidge remained especially popular with voters across the New England region. The 1920s were a fiercely Republican decade in American politics, and Connecticut in that era was a fiercely Republican state in presidential elections. The economic boom and social good feelings of the Roaring Twenties under popular Republican leadership virtually guaranteed Calvin Coolidge an easy win in the state against the conservative Southern Democrat John Davis,Roseboom, Eugene Holloway and Eckes, Alfred E.; ''A History of Presidential Elections, from George Washington to Jimmy Carter''; pp. 151-158 who had little appeal in Northern states like Connecticut. As of 2020, this was the last presidential election in which the Republican nominee carried the city of Hartford. This is the most recent election, as of 2022, where Connecticut voted to the right of New Hampshire.


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See also

* United States presidential elections in Connecticut


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1924 Connecticut elections