List of Democratic National Conventions
This is a list of Democratic National Conventions. These conventions are the presidential nominating conventions of the Democratic Party of the United States. Click on the year to take you to the corresponding article about the convention. (Conventions whose nominees won the subsequent presidential election are tinted in light blue.)
Footnotes
1 [1832] A resolution endorsing "the repeated nominations which he [Jackson] has received in various parts of the Union" was passed by the convention.
2 [1840] A resolution stating "that the convention deem it expedient at the present time not to choose between the individuals in nomination, but to leave the decision to their Republican fellow-citizens in the several states" was passed by the convention. Most Van Buren electors voted for Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky for the vice presidency; others voted for Littleton Waller Tazewell of Virginia and James K. Polk of Tennessee in the election of 1840.
3 [1844] Silas Wright of New York was first nominated and he declined the nomination.
4 [1860 June] Caleb Cushing resigned as permanent chairman.
5 [1860 June] Douglas and Johnson were chosen as the candidates of the Front Street Theater convention after most of the Southern delegations walked out. The convention bolters soon formed their own convention, located at the Maryland Institute, also in Baltimore, on June 28, 1860. At their convention Caleb Cushing again served as permanent chairman and John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky was nominated for the presidency and Joseph Lane of Oregon was nominated for the vice presidency. (1860 Southern Democratic platform)
6 [1860 June] Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama was first nominated and he declined the nomination.
7 [1872] Greeley and B. Gratz Brown had already been endorsed by the Liberal Republican Party, meeting on May 1 in Cincinnati. A dissident group of Straight-Out Democrats, meeting in Louisville, Kentucky on September 3, nominated Charles O'Conor of New York for President and John Quincy Adams II of Massachusetts for Vice President, but both men declined the nomination.[3]
8 [1896] "Gold" Democrats opposed to the Free Silver plank of the 1896 platform and to Wm J. Bryan's candidacy convened as the National Democratic Party in Indianapolis on September 2, and nominated John M. Palmer of Illinois for President and former Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky for Vice President.
9 [1896] Bryan was later nominated for President in St. Louis, together with Thomas E. Watson of Georgia for Vice President, by the National Silver Republican Party meeting on July 22, and by the People's Party (Populists) meeting on July 25.[4]
10 [1948] Breakaway delegations left the Philadelphia Convention for conventions of the Progressive and States Rights Democratic Parties. The Progressives, meeting on July 23, also in Philadelphia, nominated former Vice President Henry A. Wallace of Iowa for President and Senator Glen H. Taylor of Idaho for Vice President. (1948 Progressive Party platform) ¶ The States' Rights Democrats (or "Dixiecrats"), meeting in Birmingham, Alabama on July 17, nominated Governors J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for President and Fielding Wright of Mississippi for Vice President. (1948 States' Rights Democratic platform) [5]
11 [1972] Eagleton withdrew his candidacy after the convention and was replaced by R. Sargent Shriver, Jr. of Maryland.
[edit] Keynote speakers (incomplete list)
- 1896 - Former Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska
- 1912 - Former Chief Judge and 1904 Presidential nominee Alton B. Parker of New York
- 1924 - Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi [6]
- 1936 - Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky[7]
- 1948 - Senate Minority Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky (also V.P. nominee)[8]
- 1960 - Senator Frank Church of Idaho
- 1964 - Senator John O. Pastore of Rhode Island[9]
- 1968 - Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii
- 1972 - Governor Reubin Askew of Florida[10]
- 1976 - Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas[8]
- 1980 - Congressman Mo Udall of Arizona
- 1984 - Governor Mario Cuomo of New York[8]
- 1988 - Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards
- 1992 - Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, former Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas, Governor Zell Miller of Georgia (only time with three keynote speakers)[8]
- 1996 - Governor Evan Bayh of Indiana
- 2000 - Representative Harold Ford, Jr. of Tennessee
- 2004 - State Senator Barack Obama of Illinois
- 2008 - Former Governor Mark Warner of Virginia
[edit] References
- ^ a b Thompson (ed.), Margaret C. (1983). Presidential Elections Since 1789. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly. pp. 65. ISBN 0-87187-268-4.
- ^ a b American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara, at http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/platforms.php (retrieved February 3, 2012)
- ^ Tim Taylor, The Book of Presidents, Arno Press, New York, 1972, page 215. ISBN 0-405-00226-2
- ^ Tim Taylor, The Book of Presidents, Arno Press, New York, 1972, page 283.
- ^ Tim Taylor, The Book of Presidents, Arno Press, New York, 1972, page 470.
- ^ Hail to the Chief
- ^ [archive.org "Democrats Cheer, 1936/06/24 (1936 Democratic Convention)"] (in English) (audio visual, sound,b&w). Universal Newsreels. Moving Image Archive, Archive.org: Universal Studios. June 24, 1936. Archived from the original on unknown. archive.org. Retrieved 30 September 2011. ""Philadelphia, PA: Senator Barkley fires the first big gun of the Democratic convention in his keynote speech. With the Roosevelt-Garner ticket sure, the big job ahead is the Democratic plank and to find substitutions for the legislation nullified by the Supreme Court should the ticket be successful in the fall elections - which augurs to be one of the bitterest fights of recent years." sound of cheering and Barkley speaking (some parts silent in this partial newsreel without narration)"
- ^ a b c d http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/democratic_conventions.pdf
- ^ Goldstein, Richard (July 17, 2000). "John Pastore, Prominent Figure in Rhode Island Politics for Three Decades, Dies at 93". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEEDD123BF934A25754C0A9669C8B63. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
- ^ Time magazine, "200 Faces for the Future," 1974
