James E. Ferguson: Difference between revisions

Ferguson also ran for [[President of the United States]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1920|1920 election]] as the candidate of the American Party. Ferguson was on the ballot only in Texas, where he received 47,968 votes (9.9 percent of the vote in Texas, 0.2 percent of the vote nationwide). Ferguson's platform included opposition to the League of Nations, opposition to a [[Prohibition in the United States|national prohibition of alcohol]], and a full pardon to [[Eugene V. Debs]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Texas Ex-Governor Candidate of New American Party|newspaper=Richmond Times-Dispatch|location=Richmond, Virginia|date=April 22, 1920|via=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers at the Library of Congress|access-date=November 11, 2023|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1920-04-22/ed-1/seq-1/}}</ref> Ferguson sought the support of [[Warren Harding]] and the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] to convince its voters to vote for the American Party ticket and unite the anti-Democratic vote in Texas.<ref name="Brown 1984">{{cite book|last=Brown|first=Norman D.|title=Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928|year=1984|publisher=[[Texas A&M University Press]]|location=[[College Station, Texas]]|pages=98-99|url=https://archive.org/details/hoodbonnetlittle0000brow/page/336/mode/2up|url-access=registration|access-date=November 9, 2023}}</ref> The [[1920 United States presidential election|1920 presidential election]] was won by [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] candidate [[Warren Harding]]. [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] nominee [[James M. Cox]] won in Texas, where the white majority was voting solidly Democratic. Nationally, Ferguson was also surpassed by three other unsuccessful candidates: