Election of 1928

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The plight of farmers continued. In 1924, Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon and Representative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa presented a new bill, the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill. The bill had two main parts.
  • A Farm Board would be created, and the government would buy any surplus crops
  • The Farm Board could choose to sell surplus crops abroad, in order to raise domestic agricultural prices (13)


The Bill was repeatedly vetoed in 1924 and '27 by President Calvin Coolidge. In 1928, President Coolidge announced that he was not going to run for re-election.