At the 1956 Democratic National Convention, Senator Estes Kefauver, D-Tennessee, delivered his acceptance speech as the Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee after winning on the third ballot.

The city holds the record for hosting the most conventions and has been shaped by their outcomes. In Photos The city holds ...

The Democratic National Convention also was held Chicago ... trying to lure them on board. The 1956 Democratic Convention is memorable for requiring three ballots to choose a vice presidential ...

There’s probably no way to make the conventions useful unless two matched heavyweights slug it out in the primaries like ...

Although it did not have a formal set of rules before 1972, the Democratic Party ... (Although such officials' convention attendance had been declining since the 1956 convention, their numbers ...

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Talk now turns to how the city performed, and possibly, whether the Democratic National Convention may return ... The same ...

No city has been more closely associated with the U.S. labor movement. Detroit is also located in a key presidential battleground state.

This is the 12th time for Chicago to host the DNC. Chicago previously hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1864, 1884 ...

He was a delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention and planned to run for Congress after ... A daughter, Arabella, ...

He called for Americans to spurn divisiveness that grows into blind hatred of one another. Obama made the case for Kamala ...

Thelma McMullan arrived as an alternate delegate at the 1964 Democratic convention in Atlantic City. She was a 57-year-old white woman from Mississippi. Her husband, Milton, 60 and white, was an ...