In the presidential election , Republican President Calvin Coolidge ( who took office on August 2 , 1923 , upon the death of his predessor , Warren G. Harding ) was elected to serve a full term , defeating Democratic nominee , former Ambassador John W. Davis and Progressive Senator Robert M. La Follette , Sr. from Wisconsin . Coolidge easily won the election , taking almost every state outside the Solid South . Davis won the Democratic nomination after a record 103 ballots , emerging as a compromise candidate between Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo and New York Governor Al Smith . La Follette , a former Republican who had sought the 1912 Republican nomination , drew sixteen percent of the popular vote and won his home state of Wisconsin
Democratic nomination
1924 Democratic National Convention
1924 United States elections