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Original envelope read, "Democratic National Convention, 1920." Negative shows a man wearing a suit and a straw hat. Standing next to him is a woman. She is wearing a coat with a fur slung over her left arm and a large flower bedecked hat. She is standing, turned to her right. The 1920 Democratic National Convention was held in San Francisco June 28 at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson. The party pledged ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and supported the League of Nations. The nominee was Governor James M. Cox of Ohio and Franklin D. Roosevelt, then assistant secretary of the navy, for vice-president. The Republican nominee was Warren G. Harding, who went on to win the election.