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Uncertain Chicago Looms Over 1920 Republican Convention
In Chicago delegates dash to resolve a deadlock as 500 unpledged delegates loom large. Big fights shape the platform league plank chairmanship of the resolutions committee and permanent convention chair. Major candidates Wood Johnson and Lowden stay active while Harding and others jockey for position.
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Frank C. Lowden
Leonard Wood
Hiram Johnson
Chicago
Michigan-av
Gg. Oo. P
League of Nations
William Borah
League
James E. Watson
Indiana
Ogden Milla
New York
Watson
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Medill McCormick
Illinois
Albert J. Beveridge
Col. Roosevelt
Wood
Johnson
Lowden
Warren G. Harding
Ohio
Miles Poindexter
Washington
Calvin C. Coolidge
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
William C. Sproul
Pennsylvania
Nicholas Murray Butler
James KE. Watson
Edwin I. Morrow
Kentucky
Frank B. Kellogg
Minnesota
Irwin JL. Lenroot
Wisconsin
France
Myron YT. Herrick
Wm. H Taft
Charles Evans Hughes
Philander ©. Knox
Herbert Hoover
London
Old Guard
Illnois
Big Jim" Watson
Resolutions Committee
Jim
Odgen Mills
William Allen White
Austin Colgate
New Jersey