1952 Republican National Convention
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| 1952 Presidential Election | |
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  Nominees Eisenhower and Nixon |
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| Convention | |
| Date(s) | July 7–July 11, 1952 |
| City | Chicago, Illinois |
| Venue | International Amphitheatre |
| Candidates | |
| Presidential Nominee | Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York |
| Vice Presidential Nominee | Richard Nixon of California |
| Other Candidates | Robert A. Taft of Ohio Earl Warren of California |
The 1952 Republican National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois from July 7 to July 11, 1952 and nominated the popular general and war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas, also known as "Ike," for president and the anti-communist crusading Senator from California, Richard Milhous Nixon, for vice president.
The Republican platform pledged to end the unpopular war in Korea, to fire all "the loafers, incompetents and unnecessary employees" at the State Department, condemned the Roosevelt and Truman administrations' economic policies, supported retention of the Taft-Hartley Act, and pledged to bring an end to ´"Communist Subversion" in the United States.
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[edit] Candidates before the convention
- Businessman Riley A. Bender of Illinois
- Governor George T. Mickelson of South Dakota
- Representative Thomas H. Werdel of California
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Retired General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York
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General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of New York
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Former Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota
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Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan
[edit] Balloting
[edit] Presidential
| Presidential Balloting, RNC 1952 | ||
| Contender: Ballot | 1st Before Shifts | 1st After Shifts |
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| General Dwight D. Eisenhower | 595 | 845 |
| Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft | 500 | 280 |
| Governor Earl Warren of California | 81 | 77 |
| former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen | 20 | 0 |
| General Douglas MacArthur | 10 | 4 |
[edit] Vice Presidential
Richard Nixon was nominated unanimously.
[edit] External links
| Preceded by 1948 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Republican National Conventions | Succeeded by 1956 San Francisco, California |
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