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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 .
May 11, 2016 · By the Depression, the Klan’s power was much reduced—in Indiana, the Grand Dragon, self-proclaimed defender of “Protestant womanhood,” was convicted of kidnapping, rape and murder. Thankfully, membership plummeted after that scandal. Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story implied that the 1924 Democratic convention was widely ...
Mar 7, 2016 · But the 1924 convention appears to have wounded the Democratic Party, which failed spectacularly in the fall election.
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May 15, 2018 · Coolidge won the election by a landslide.
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...
Feb 26, 2020 · Democratic National Convention, 1968. 1968 Riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Facing a strong challenger in Robert F. Kennedy and continuing Vietnam War protests, President ...
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3 days ago · From 1872 to 1908 only one Democratic National Convention failed to nominate a presidential candidate on the first or second ballot. In 1912, however, it took Woodrow Wilson 46 ballots to secure the party’s nomination. The two-thirds rule nearly ruined the party in the 1920s. A record 103 ballots were needed to select a nominee in 1924.
