Interwar Era
He participated in founding of the American Legion, and was commander of the Legion for the State of Iowa from 1920 to 1921, before being elevated to national commander.
President Calvin Coolidge appointed him Assistant Secretary of War in 1925. MacNider married Margaret McAuley in 1925. He was considered a possible Republican candidate in the United States presidential election, 1928, but after the death of his father, MacNider returned to Iowa to handle the family's business affairs.
President Herbert Hoover appointed him United States ambassador to Canada in 1930. In 1932, he resigned in an unsuccessful attempt to be made the Republican candidate for Vice President. In 1940, he again failed receive the Republican nomination for President and declined the Vice Presidential candidacy under Wendell Lewis Willkie. He also turned down a cabinet position offered by President Dwight Eisenhower.
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