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(Tuesday, July 6, 1920, 1:39 p.m. PST) — Governor James M. Cox of Ohio was nominated President of the United States early today at the 1920 Democratic National Convention meeting at Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.

Cox was nominated on the 44th ballot, defeating former Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo of California.

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Neither President Woodrow Wilson, in spite of his failing health, nor former Secretary of State and three-time presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan had entirely given up hope that their party would turn to them, but neither was, in the event, formally nominated.

38-year-old Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, a fifth cousin of the late president Theodore Roosevelt, was nominated for vice-president by acclamation.

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The Cox-Roosevelt Democratic ticket would face the Republican ticket of Warren Harding-Calvin Coolidge in the 1920 presidential election.