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At the Republican Convention in Chicago, despite being the incumbent, Taft's victory was not immediately assured.
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At and Republican
At the 1856 Republican National Convention, Lincoln placed second in the contest to become the party's candidate for vice president.
At its 1864 convention, the Republican Party selected Andrew Johnson, a War Democrat from the Southern state of Tennessee, as his running mate.
At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.
In his journal for November 6, 1860, he wrote: " At Town House, and cast my vote for Lincoln and the Republican candidates generally — the first vote I ever cast for a President and State officers.
At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War the colony remained loyal to the Republican government.
At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.
At the end of the year, concerned by Francisco Franco's Falangist uprising, ( supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ), Orwell decided to go to Spain to take part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.
At several Republican National Conventions, Kemp has delivered speeches.
At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Kemp, along with allies such as Gingrich and Lott, added a plank to the party platform that put President Reagan on record as ruling out tax increases.
At the time, Spain was embroiled in a bloody civil war, triggered by the rebellion of Nationalist forces under General Francisco Franco against the socialist Republican government of President Manuel Azaña.
At about the same time that the Republican Party of Puerto Rico was organized under the U. S., Luis Muñoz-Rivera organized the Federal Party.
At the Federal level, the two U. S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison ; Paris is part of Texas ' US Congressional 4th District, which is currently represented by Republican Ralph M. Hall.
At the end of his second term, Roosevelt promoted his friend William Howard Taft for the 1908 Republican nomination.
At the federal level, each of the two major parties has a national committee ( See, Democratic National Committee, Republican National Committee ) that acts as the hub for much fund-raising and campaign activities, particularly in presidential campaigns.
At the insistence of Republican Representative Richard Armey, the Act had a number of sunset provisions built in, which were originally set to expire on December 31, 2005.
At the time, Roosevelt was convinced that Taft was a genuine " progressive " and helped push through the nomination of his Secretary of War onto the Republican ticket on the first ballot at the party convention.
* July 16 – At the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, U. S. presidential nominee Barry Goldwater declares that " extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice ", and " moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue ".
* September 17 – At a small rally in Harlem, televangelist Pat Robertson announces his candidacy for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.
At the 1968 Republican National Convention, Agnew's nomination was supported by many conservatives within the Republican Party, and by Nixon himself.
At the 1940 Republican National Convention itself, keynote speaker Harold Stassen, the Governor of Minnesota, announced his support for Willkie and became his official floor manager.
At the 1944 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, Dewey easily overcame Bricker and was nominated on the first ballot.
At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War he joined the Republican forces in Spain, serving in and helping to organize the small Spanish Republican Air Force.
At and Convention
At the Democratic Convention, when he came in second on the first ballot and faded from there, it became clear that he was too unpopular to run.
At the Southern Commercial Convention of 1854, Pike said the South should remain in the Union and seek equality with the North, but if the South " were forced into an inferior status, she would be better out of the Union than in it.
At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Clinton gave a widely praised speech nominating Barack Obama.
At a Braveheart Convention in 1997, held in Stirling the day after the Scottish Devolution vote and attended by 200 delegates from around the world, Braveheart author Randall Wallace, Seoras Wallace of the Wallace Clan, Scottish historian David Ross and Bláithín FitzGerald from Ireland gave lectures on various aspects of the film.
At the 2010 10th Conference of Parties ( COP ) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in October in Nagoya, Japan, the Nagoya Protocol was adopted.
At the same time the article's protection is limited in that it only prohibits discrimination with respect to rights under the Convention.
At a special " Leadership Convention " in Kilkenny on 6 October 2001, Trevor Sargent was elected the first official leader of the Green Party.
At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, there were a number of references to judicial review.
At the time of the Constitutional Convention, there had been cases in the state courts of at least seven states involving judicial review of state statutes.
Merril records later " At the end of the Convention week, the taste of America was sour in all our mouths ," and " by the end of the Sixties, Merril was a political refugee living in Canada.
Mob Convention — September 7, 1853: At the convention, young men greeted her with “ a perfect storm ,” hissing and groaning.
At the time of the Frostbitten Convention, it appeared that Ohio had won the conflict.
At the 1788 Virginia Ratifying Convention, when debating the ratification of the new United States Constitution, Patrick Henry stated, " One of our first complaints, under the former government, was the quartering of troops among us.
At the 1996 Democratic National Convention, Clinton and incumbent Vice President Al Gore were renominated with token opposition.
** At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton accepts his party's presidential nomination on behalf of the " forgotten middle class ".
* June 29 – 1928 Democratic National Convention: At the Democratic National Convention in Houston, New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.
At the time of King Louis XVI's trial, the Girondists had, however, lost their majority in the Convention.
At the Convention, Bush's primary campaign opponent Pat Buchanan gave his famous " culture war " speech, criticizing Clinton and Gore's social progressiveness, and voicing skepticism on his " New Democrat " brand.
At and Chicago
At the University of Chicago she studied Whitman and Shelley, and became a Socialist.
At no time did I attempt to seek approval or commendation for the members of the Chicago board of election commissioners for the discharge of their duties.
At least this seemed to be the working hypothesis for `` Chicago And All That Jazz '', presented on NBC-TV Nov. 26.
At the University of Notre Dame, he trained as an engineer and began working for a lighting company in Chicago.
At a meeting at the Leland Hotel in Chicago in 1901, the other baseball leagues negotiated a plan to maintain their independence.
At a time when scientific research in the United States was still in its infancy, George Ellery Hale, a solar astronomer from the University of Chicago, founded the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1904.
At least, three short periods in the history of Chicago have had a lasting influence on American Literature.
At the Chicago 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Muybridge gave a series of lectures on the Science of Animal Locomotion in the Zoopraxographical Hall, built specially for that purpose in the " Midway Plaisance " arm of the exposition.
At the University of Chicago, Hayek was not part of the economics department and did not influence the rebirth of neoclassical theory which took place there ( see Chicago school of economics ).
At the urging of his professors, he applied to the University of Chicago and was admitted.
At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano lessons.
At RFK Stadium in Washington, D. C., the Wizards, with the league's best defense, tried to prove that defense wins championships by beating the team with the league's best offense, the Chicago Fire.
At Chicago, Cohen completed his master's degree in mathematics in 1954 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1958, under supervision of the Professor of Mathematics, Antoni Zygmund.
At Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, 10 % of its Confederate prisoners died during one cold winter month ; and Elmira Prison in New York state, with a death rate of 25 %, very nearly equalled that of Andersonville.
At the same time, the Chicago Cubs awarded Sosa's # 21 to new pitcher Jason Marquis, despite the fact that it was formerly worn by Sosa, who coincidentally later hit his 600th home run against Marquis.
At least 739 people die in Chicago alone.
At Chicago, he had received a grant from the National Research Council ( NRC ) which had paid for much of his work on isotope separation.
At both NYU and Chicago, he continued to refine his molecular-orbital theory.
At the convention itself, Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff ( D-Conn .), went off-script during his speech nominating George McGovern, saying, " And with George McGovern as President of the United States, we wouldn ’ t have to have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago.
At 22 years, he was the longest serving Chicago mayor, surpassing the tenure of his father, Richard J. Daley.
At home, 1919 was marked by major strikes in the meatpacking and steel industries, and large-scale race riots in Chicago and other cities.
At various times, a post office, exposition center, armory, and even an early home field of the baseball club now known as the Chicago Cubs were built in the park.
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