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1984 – Governor Mario Cuomo of New York [25] 1988 – State Treasurer Ann Richards of Texas. 1992 – U.S. Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas, and Governor Zell Miller of Georgia [25] 1996 – Governor Evan Bayh of Indiana.
The Democratic National Convention (DNC) is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1832 by the United States Democratic Party. [a] They have been administered by the Democratic National Committee since the 1852 national convention. The primary goal of the Democratic National Convention is to officially ...
Jill Biden at the 2020 Democratic National Convention Jill Biden, the spouse of presidential nominee Joe Biden and the former second lady of the United States, delivered her speech on the second night of the convention from the classroom at Brandywine High School in Wilmington, Delaware, where she had been an English teacher from 1991 through 1993. Biden's speech was focused on both family and ...
United Center, the convention venue (photographed in 2014). The 2024 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention in which delegates of the United States Democratic Party voted on their party platform and ceremonially reported their vote to nominate Vice President Kamala Harris for president and her chosen running mate Governor Tim Walz for vice president in the 2024 ...
August 23, 2024 at 6:58 AM. Until recently, it looked like this summer’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago would be a fraught affair. Former President Donald Trump had just dodged ...
1972 Democratic National Convention. The 1972 Democratic National Convention was the presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party for the 1972 presidential election. It was held at Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida, also the host city of the Republican National Convention that year, on July 10–13, 1972.
The 1960 Democratic National Convention was held in Los Angeles, California, on July 11–15, 1960. It nominated Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts for president and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas for vice president. In the general election that November, the Kennedy–Johnson ticket won an electoral college victory and ...
In a speech to the convention, Humphrey urged the Democratic Party to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights." The convention adopted the civil rights plank in a close vote (651½–582½). [6] DNC vote on the civil rights plank at the 1948 DNC by state delegation