Albert Davis Lasker was an American businessman who played a major role in shaping modern advertising. He was raised in Galveston, Texas, where his father was the president of several banks. Moving to Chicago, he became a partner in the advertising firm of Lord & Thomas. He created and produced many successful ad campaigns. He made new use of radio, changing popular culture and appealing to consumers' psychology. A Republican, he designed new ways to advertise election campaigns, especially the Warren Harding campaign of 1920, and became a philanthropist.
Albert Lasker in the 1920s
Lasker (front center-left) with US President Warren G. Harding (front center-right) at Yankee Stadium in 1923
The mausoleum of Albert Lasker
1920 United States presidential election
The 1920 United States presidential election was the 34th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1920. In the first election held after the end of the First World War and the first election after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio defeated Democratic Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. It was also the third presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state; the others have been in 1860, 1904, 1940, 1944, and 2016.
Image: Warren G Harding Harris & Ewing crop
Image: James M. Cox 1920
Woodrow Wilson, the incumbent president in 1920, whose term expired on March 4, 1921
Image: Warren G Harding portrait as senator June 1920