1952 Republican National Convention

1952 Republican National Convention
Convention
1952 presidential election
Nominees Eisenhower and Nixon
Date(s)	July 7–11, 1952
City	Chicago, Illinois
Venue	International Amphitheatre
Candidates
Presidential nominee	Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas
Vice Presidential nominee	Richard Nixon of California

Attendees at the 1952 convention

The 1952 Republican National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois from July 7 to July 11, 1952, and nominated the popular general and war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas, nicknamed "Ike," for president and the anti-communist crusading Senator from California, Richard M. Nixon, for vice president.

The Republican platform pledged to end the unpopular war in Korea, to fire all "the loafers, incompetents and unnecessary employees" at the State Department, condemned the Roosevelt and Truman administrations' economic policies, supported retention of the Taft-Hartley Act, opposed "discrimination against race, religion or national origin", supported "Federal action toward the elimination of lynching", and pledged to bring an end to communist subversion in the United States.^[1]

Candidates before the convention

Businessman Riley A. Bender of Illinois
Former Governor George T. Mickelson of South Dakota
Representative Thomas H. Werdel of California

General of the Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
of Kansas
General of the Army
Douglas MacArthur
of Arkansas
Senator
Wayne Morse
of Oregon
Governor
Harold Stassen
of Minnesota
Senator
Robert A. Taft
of Ohio
Senator
Arthur H. Vandenberg
of Michigan
Governor
Earl Warren
of California

The balloting

A piece of literature for the Eisenhower–Nixon campaign, 1952

Contender: ballot	1st before shifts	1st after shifts
Presidential balloting, RNC 1952
General Dwight D. Eisenhower	595	845
Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft	500	280
Governor Earl Warren of California	81	77
former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen	20	0
General Douglas MacArthur	10	4

Vice Presidential

Eisenhower was so unfamiliar with party politics that even after his nomination he believed that the delegates would choose the vice-presidential nominee, surprising his advisors Lucius D. Clay and Herbert Brownell. When they explained that the delegates would support whomever he chose, Eisenhower suggested businessmen he knew such as Charles E. Wilson and C. R. Smith. Clay and Brownell explained that a running mate should be a politician who balanced the ticket in geography, age, and other areas, and suggested Richard Nixon, who had helped Eisenhower win California's delegates. Eisenhower had met Nixon, and accepted the suggestion. Nixon was nominated unanimously.^[2]

References

↑ "Republican Party Platform of 1952". Political Party Platforms: Parties Receiving Electoral Votes: 1840-2012. The American Presidency Project. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
↑ Smith, Jean Edward (2012). Eisenhower in War and Peace. Random House. pp. 520–522. ISBN 978-0-679-64429-3.

External links

Republican Party platform of 1952 at The American Presidency Project
Eisenhower acceptance speech at The American Presidency Project

Preceded by 1948 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Republican National Conventions	Succeeded by 1956 San Francisco, California

United States presidential election, 1952

Republican Party

Convention
Primaries

Nominee	Dwight D. Eisenhower

VP nominee	Richard Nixon

Candidates	Riley A. Bender George Theodore Mickelson Harold Stassen Robert Taft Earl Warren

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Convention
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Nominee	Adlai Stevenson

VP nominee	John Sparkman

Candidates	Alben W. Barkley Paul A. Dever W. Averell Harriman Hubert Humphrey Estes Kefauver Robert S. Kerr Richard Russell Jr.

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Nominee	Stuart Hamblen

VP nominee	Enoch A. Holtwick

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Nominee	Vincent Hallinan

VP nominee	Charlotta Bass

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Nominee	Darlington Hoopes

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Nominee	Farrell Dobbs

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

34th President of the United States (1953–1961) Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1951–1952) Chief of Staff of the Army (1945–1948) Commander, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (1943–1945)

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37th President of the United States (1969–1974) 36th Vice President of the United States (1953–1961) U.S. Senator from California (1950–1953) U.S. Representative for CA-12 (1947–1950)

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