Presidential Campaign Advertisement, 1920
date: label: associated date
content: 1920-10
name: label: associated person
content: Cox, James M.
label: associated person
content: Cox, Mrs. James. M.
notes: label: Description
content: This advertisement from the 1920 presidential campaign appeared in the November 1920 issue of the Ladies Home Journal. It urged women to vote for the Democratic presidential ticket of James M. Cox and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
label: Description
content: The 1920 presidential election was the first in which women from all states could vote after the Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising women was ratified in August, 1920. It appealed to the mothers among the new voters, asserting that the Democratic candidates would work for peace, keeping children from having to serve in future wars as many of their fathers had just done in World War I.
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Suffrage
label: Subject
content: Political Campaigns
label: Subject
content: Reform Movements
label: Subject
content: Voting Rights
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content: Political History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Woman Suffrage
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Ladies' Home Journal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0606.140
label: accession number
content: 1980.0606
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0606.140
objectType: label: Object Name
content: broadside
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall materials)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 8 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 21.59 cm