Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 1920 Laura Clay akanga ari muvambi weDemocratic Women's Club of Kentucky. Gore iroro, akashanda senhume paDemocratic National Convention ya1920
rakaitirwa muSan Francisco pakati pa 28 June na 6 July 1920. Laura Clay akaita nhoroondo yeAmerica semumwe wevakadzi vekutanga (pamwe chete nemumwe mutumwa weKentucky Cora Wilson Stewart) kuti aendeswe mberi semumiriri weMutungamiri weMutungamiri wezvematongerwe enyika makuru; uye, nekuda kweMutungamiri weVatungamiri veKentucky Augustus Owsley Stanley naStewart ndivo vakadzi vaviri vekutanga kugamuchira vhoti mumwe nemumwe wekutsvaga mutungamiri wenyika. Pavhoti yechi44, Gavhuna James M. Cox weOhio akasarudzwa semumiriri weDemocratic Party kuti ave purezidhendi naFranklin D. Roosevelt, mutevedzeri wemunyori weNavy kubva kuNew York, semutevedzeri wake wepurezidhendi. Purogiramu yeDemocratic Party yakatsigira kodzero dzevakadzi dzokuvhota; pashure pokurwisana kwakaoma kwezvokuvhota muU.S. Congress uye mumatare ehurumende, Kugadziriswa KwechiGumi Nemapfumbamwe kwakava chikamu cheBumbiro reMutemo reU.S. musi waAugust 26, 1920. (Rinoti, "Kodzero yevagari vemuUnited States yokuvhota haifaniri kurambwa kana kuderedzwa neUnited States kana kuti neimwe Nyika pamusana pepabonde".)