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With the demise of the Congressional nominating caucus in the election of 1824, the political system was left without an institutional method on the national level for determining Presidential nominations.

For this reason, the candidates of 1832 came to be chosen by national conventions.

The first national convention was held by the Anti-Masonic Party in Baltimore, Maryland, in September 1831.

The National Republican Party and the Democratic Party soon imitated them, also holding conventions in Baltimore, which would remain a favored venue for national political conventions for decades.