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The 1924 Democratic National Convention, held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City from June 24 to July 9, 1924, was the longest continuously running convention in United States political history. It took a record 103 ballots to nominate a presidential candidate.
Mar 7, 2016 · The 1924 convention wasn’t the Democratic Party’s first experiment in conventional chaos. The 1912 convention took 46 ballots to select Woodrow Wilson, and the 1920 convention spent 44...
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May 11, 2016 · McAdoo, the son-in-law of the last Democratic President, Woodrow Wilson, was the candidate of rural America: Protestant, prohibitionist, anti-machine politics. Smith was Catholic, anti-prohibition, pro-labor, pro-immigrant, and the face of a new urban nation feared by McAdoo supporters. To say the party was riven is an understatement.
Mar 16, 2016 · At the 1924 Democratic National Convention, held at Madison Square Garden in New York, the most powerful bloc in the Democratic Party was the Ku Klux Klan. The New York Times. By Jim Dwyer....
Sep 6, 2012 · In 1924 FDR backed New York Governor Al Smith as the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party, and Smith asked FDR to give his nominating speech at the convention. When on stage, FDR moved to the podium assisted only by his two crutches – a huge feat for him to perform.
Jun 24, 2019 · John W. Davis, a dark horse, eventually won the presidential nomination on the 103rd ballot, a compromise candidate following a protracted convention fight between distant front-runners William Gibbs McAdoo and Al Smith. 1924 Democratic National Convention. 1924 presidential election.
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1924 Democratic Party Platform. June 24, 1924. We, the representatives of the democratic party, in national convention assembled, pay our profound homage to the memory of Woodrow Wilson. Our hearts are filled with gratitude that American democracy should have produced this man, whose spirit and influence will live on through the ages; and that ...
