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The Democratic convention unanimously nominated him for the spot, although the conservative clique from Nashville had serious reservations.
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Two years later, the city hosted the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, which featured physical confrontations both inside and outside the convention hall, including full-scale riots, or in some cases police riots, in city streets.
The two leading Democratic candidates were Roswell P. Flower and Henry W. Slocum, but their factions deadlocked, and the convention could not agree on a nominee.
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Polk initially hoped to be nominated for vice-president at the Democratic convention, which began on May 27, 1844.
Before the convention, Jackson told Polk that he was his favorite for the nomination of the Democratic Party.
In 1840 he attended a Democratic meeting in Vicksburg and, to his surprise, was chosen as a delegate to the party's state convention in Jackson.
In 1842 Davis attended the Democratic convention, and in 1843 became a candidate for the state House of Representatives, losing his first election.
It took Van Buren and his partisan friends a decade and a half to form the Democratic Party ; many elements, such as the national convention, were borrowed from other parties.
In the Democratic convention, though he had a majority of the votes, he did not have the two-thirds which the convention required, and after eight ballots his name was withdrawn.
Puerto Rico does participate in the internal political process of both the Democratic and Republican parties in the U. S., accorded equal-proportional representation in both parties, and delegates from the islands vote in each party's national presidential convention.
But, Laura Clay and Cora Wilson Stewart of Kentucky were nominated as candidates for the presidency at the 1920 Democratic National Convention and received " the first vote cast for a woman in the convention of either of the two great parties.
At the tumultuous 1972 Democratic convention, presidential nominee George McGovern selected Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate, but numerous other candidates were either nominated from the floor or received votes during the balloting.
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Cleveland issued a statement urging Democratic voters to support gold — the next convention to be held, in Illinois, unanimously supported silver ; the keynote speaker prayed for divine forgiveness for Cleveland's 1892 nomination.
The 1896 Democratic convention opened at the Chicago Coliseum on July 7, 1896.
For one thing, he began the 1896 convention without any official status — the Democratic National Committee, which made the initial determination of which delegations would be seated, had chosen the pro-gold Nebraskans to represent their state.
According to political scientist Richard F. Bensel in his study of the 1896 Democratic convention, " Although the silver men knew they would win this fight, they nonetheless needed someone to tell them — and the gold men — why they must enshrine silver at the heart of the platform.
The Akron Journal and Republican, no friend to Bryan, opined that " never probably has a national convention been swayed or influenced by a single speech as was the national Democratic convention ".
During the ensuing general election campaign against Vice President Hubert Humphrey — which took place against a backdrop of urban riots and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, culminating in the violent confrontations at the Democratic convention in Chicago — Agnew repeatedly hammered the Democrats on the issue of " law and order ".
* The Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song " Chicago " ( written by Graham Nash ) was about the 1968 Democratic convention.
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Van Buren was unanimously nominated by the 1835 Democratic National Convention at Baltimore.
In 1961, after Johnson resigned from the Senate to become Vice President, Mansfield was unanimously elected the Democratic floor leader and thus Senate Majority Leader.
The 1835 Democratic National Convention, in Baltimore, in May 1835, was held under the two-thirds rule, largely to demonstrate Van Buren's wide popularity, and, although Van Buren himself was nominated unanimously, Johnson barely obtained the necessary two thirds of the vote.
On November 16, 2006, Pelosi was unanimously chosen by her caucus as the Democratic candidate for Speaker, effectively making her Speaker-elect.
The new constitution was ratified on October 13, 1874 and Democratic officials elected almost unanimously, including new Democratic Governor Augustus H. Garland who was inaugurated November 12, 1874, and Baxter left office after only serving two years of a four year term.
Shortly thereafter, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Democratic Party could legally replace Torricelli's name on the ballot with that of former U. S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, ironically a longtime Torricelli nemesis, with whom he had often publicly feuded.
Dr. Ben Coghlan, an epidemiologist in Melbourne Australia, writes: " The US Congress should agree: in June this year they unanimously passed a bill outlining financial and political measures to promote relief, security and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Populist Party disappeared from the House, with its supporters almost unanimously switching to the Democratic Party.
They unanimously selected Donald Norcross, co-chairman of the Camden County Democratic Committee and brother of South Jersey political boss George Norcross III.
The Constitutional amendments were part of a package originally promoted by the Democratic Progressive Party, but were passed almost unanimously after compromises were made on the wording.
Lyonpo Sangay Ngedup, whose demonstrated leadership style is democratic, was unanimously elected as president and leader of the newly constituted People's Democratic Party.
The state committee of the Vermont Democratic Party voted unanimously to endorse Sanders.
He won the Democratic nomination unanimously and in his acceptance speech he cast his campaign as part of a larger populist movement, although the Populist Party had largely died out.
The opposition Alternative Democratic Pole ( Polo Democrático Alternativo ) party leadership voted 18 to 3 against participating in the main protest, rejecting an initial proposal by Senator Gustavo Petro, but unanimously accepted his subsequent request to hold a separate rally on the same date with the support of labor unions and human rights organizations.
On 6 November, Karimov was unanimously chosen as the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential candidate at a party convention in Tashkent, and Karimov accepted the nomination.
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The Hearst men say that if Hearst is nominated, he and his immediate friends will contribute to the Democratic National Committee the sum of $1,500,000.
The alternative to this is that if a conservative candidate is nominated the national committee will have to appeal to the trusts for their campaign funds, and in doing this will incur obligations which would make a Democratic victory absolutely fruitless.
In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.
The 1832 Democratic National Convention, the party's first and held in May, had nominated him for vice-president on the Jackson ticket, despite the strong opposition to him which existed in many states.
Instead, WASG candidates — including the former Social Democratic leader, Oskar Lafontaine — were nominated on the PDS electoral list.
In 1836, the Whig Party nominated different candidates in different regions in the hopes of splintering the electoral vote and denying Martin Van Buren, the Democratic candidate, a majority in the Electoral College, thereby throwing the election into the Whig-controlled House.
Taylor defeated Democratic candidate Lewis Cass and the anti-slavery Free Soil Party, who had nominated former President Martin Van Buren.
* July 15 – Jimmy Carter is nominated for U. S. President at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.
* 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.
Democrat Woodrow Wilson was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, thanks to the support of William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate who still had a large and loyal following in 1912.
Unpopular incumbent President Harry S. Truman decided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nominated Governor Adlai Stevenson II of Illinois ; Stevenson had gained a reputation in Illinois as an intellectual and eloquent orator.
Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger was the first Secretary of Energy, who was a Republican nominated to the post by Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the only time a president has appointed someone of another party to the post.
Occasionally, popular candidates for local office have succeeded in being nominated by both Republican and Democratic Parties.
In August, the Democratic Party had nominated as its candidate George B. McClellan, the popular former Union army commander, and it had seemed likely that Lincoln would lose to McClellan.
In 1844, Clay was nominated by the Whigs against James K. Polk, the Democratic candidate.
The Democratic Party then nominated Nellie Ross to run for governor in a special election the following month.
Stevenson again won the nomination at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, becoming the last Unitarian to be nominated for the presidency by a major party.
In 1960, after the failure of the " Stop Kennedy " coalition he had formed with Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, and Hubert Humphrey, Johnson received 409 votes on the only ballot at the Democratic convention, which nominated John F. Kennedy.
Though opposition parties called for general elections, the President Jorge Sampaio nominated Pedro Santana Lopes, the new Social Democratic leader, as Prime Minister, who thus formed a new government, in coalition with the People's Party.
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