Badge, Calvin Coolidge, 1924
date: label: date made
content: 1924
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content: 1924 11 04
name: label: associated person
content: Coolidge, Calvin
label: associated institution
content: Republican National Party
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content: Calvin Coolidge ascended to the presidency after the death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923. That same year Charles Dawes, a World War I brigadier general who had been serving as the first Director of the Budget, was appointed to the Allied Reparations Commission by the League of Nations. The following year President Coolidge ran for his own full term as president and chose Dawes as his vice-presidential candidate.
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content: Coolidge and Dawes defeated the Democratic candidates John W. Davis and Charles Bryan and the Progressive ticket of Robert M. La Follette and Burton Wheeler. In 1925, Vice President Dawes was co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work stabilizing the economy in post-war Europe.
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content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.315264.1149
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content: 315264.1149
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content: Badge