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Convention City
Conventions were implemented in 1832 as a way to unify parties and promote candidates to an audience of delegates from across the nation. During presidential election years, delegates gathered to represent their party on a state level before traveling to a national convention. They then nominated the party's candidates for president and vice president and decided on a platform consisting of issues and ideas
about policy.
| Year |
Party |
Nominee |
VP Nominee |
Number of Ballots |
| 1860 |
Republican |
Abraham Lincoln |
Hannibal Hamlin |
4 |
| 1864 |
Democratic |
Gen. George McClellan |
George Pendleton |
1 |
| 1868 |
Republican |
Ulysses S. Grant |
Schuyler Colfax |
1 |
| 1880 |
Republican |
James Garfield |
Chester Arthur |
36 |
| 1884 |
Republican
Democratic |
James Blaine
Grover Cleveland |
John Logan
Thomas Hendricks |
4
2 |
| 1888 |
Republican |
Benjamin Harrison |
Levi Morton |
8 |
| 1892 |
Democratic |
Grover Cleveland |
Adlai E. Stevenson |
1 |
| 1896 |
Democratic |
William Jennings Bryan |
Arthur Sewall |
5 |
| 1904 |
Republican |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Charles Fairbanks |
1 |
| 1908 |
Republican |
William Howard Taft |
James Sherman |
1 |
| 1912 |
Republican |
William Howard Taft |
James Sherman |
1 |
| 1916 |
Republican |
Charles Evans Hughes |
Charles Fairbanks |
3 |
| 1920 |
Republican |
Warren G. Harding |
Calvin Coolidge |
10 |
| 1932 |
Democratic
Republican |
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover |
John Garner
Charles Curtis |
4
1 |
| 1940 |
Democratic |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Henry Wallace |
1 |
| 1944 |
Democratic
Republican |
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey |
Harry Truman
John Bricker |
1
1 |
| 1952 |
Democratic
Republican |
Adlai Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
John Sparkman
Richard Nixon |
3
1 |
| 1956 |
Democratic |
Adlai Stevenson |
Estes Kefauver |
1 |
| 1960 |
Republican |
Richard Nixon |
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. |
1 |
| 1968 |
Democratic |
Hubert Humphrey |
Edmund Muskie |
1 |
| 1996 |
Democratic |
Bill Clinton |
Al Gore |
1 |
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