1924 Republican National Convention
1924 presidential election | |
Convention | |
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Date(s) | June 10–12, 1924 |
City | Cleveland, Ohio |
Venue | Public Auditorium |
Candidates | |
Presidential nominee | Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts |
Vice presidential nominee | Charles G. Dawes of Illinois |
The 1924 Republican National Convention was held in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Public Auditorium, from June 10 to 12.
Incumbent
Delegates
For this convention the method of allocating delegates changed in order to reduce the overrepresentation of the South.[1] This effort proved only partly successful as Southern delegates proved to be more overrepresented than they had been in 1916 or 1920, though they were not as overrepresented as they had been in 1912 and earlier.
There were 120 women delegates, 11% of the total.[2][a] The Republican National Committee approved a rule providing for a national committeeman and a national committeewoman from each state.[3][4][5]
Ku Klux Klan presence
The head of the KKK, Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans, was in the city for the convention but maintained a low public profile.[4][5] Time featured Evans in a cover photograph[6] in conjunction with an article about the organization's role in the Republican convention, dubbing it "the Kleveland Konvention."[7] As with the 1924 Democratic National Convention, some delegates supported adding a condemnation of the Ku Klux Klan by name into the party platform, but they lacked enough support to bring their proposed language to a vote.[8]
Presidential nomination
Presidential candidates
Coolidge faced a challenge from California Senator
Declined to run
Presidential Balloting | ||
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Candidate | 1st | Unanimous |
Coolidge | 1,065 | 1,109 |
La Follette | 34 | |
Johnson | 10 |
Presidential Balloting / 3rd Day of Convention (June 12, 1924)
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1st Presidential Ballot
Vice Presidential nomination
Vice Presidential candidates
-
FormerFrank Orren Lowden
of Illinois
(Rejected Nomination) -
James E. Watson
of Indiana -
FormerWilliam P. Jackson
of Maryland
As Calvin Coolidge had ascended to the presidency following the death of
Secretary of Commerce
Vice Presidential Balloting | ||||||
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Candidate | 1st | 2nd (Before Shifts) | 2nd (After Shifts) | Unanimous | 3rd | Unanimous |
Lowden
|
222 | 413 | 766 | 1,109 | 0 | |
Dawes | 149 | 111 | 49 | 682.5 | 1,109 | |
Burton | 139 | 288 | 94 | 0 | ||
Hoover | 0 | 0 | 0 | 234.5 | ||
Kenyon
|
172 | 95 | 68 | 75 | ||
Graham | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Watson
|
79 | 55 | 7 | 45 | ||
Curtis | 56 | 31 | 24 | 0 | ||
Hyde | 55 | 36 | 36 | 0 | ||
Norris | 35 | 2 | 2 | 29 | ||
Brookhart | 0 | 31 | 31 | 0 | ||
Hines | 29 | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||
March | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Taylor | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Jackson | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Warren | 0 | 23 | 23 | 0 | ||
DuPont
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ||
Dixon | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||
Sanders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
Harbord
|
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Beveridge | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Coulter | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
Wrigley | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Not Voting | 8 | 6 | 6 | 21 |
Vice Presidential Balloting / 3rd Day of Convention (June 12, 1924)
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1st
Vice Presidential Ballot -
2nd
Vice Presidential Ballot
(Before Shifts) -
2nd
Vice Presidential Ballot
(After Shifts) -
3rd
Vice Presidential Ballot
Prayers
Each of the three days of the convention opened with a lengthy
On June 10, the opening prayer was given by William F. Anderson, Methodist Episcopal bishop of Boston. Among other things, he called for "stricter observance of the law and the preservation of the Constitution of the United States", in other words, for more zealous enforcement of Prohibition.[13]
The next day's session was opened by Rev. Dr. Samuel Schulman, rabbi of Temple Beth-El in New York. Schulman spoke with appreciation for "the Republican Party's precious heritage of the championship of human rights"; he called for "every form of prejudice and misunderstanding" to be "driven forever out of our land". Speaking of Calvin Coolidge, he praised "the integrity, the wisdom, the fearlessness of our beloved President".[14]
On June 12, the final day's invocation was given by Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland. Schrembs characterized President Calvin Coolidge as "a chieftain whose record of faithful public service, and whose personality, untarnished and untainted by the pollution of political corruption, will fill the heart of America with the new hope of a second spring".[15]
See also
- History of the United States Republican Party
- List of Republican National Conventions
- U.S. presidential nomination convention
- Republican Party presidential primaries, 1924
- 1924 United States presidential election
- 1924 Democratic National Convention
Notes
References
- ^ "An historical analysis of the apportionment of delegate votes at the National Conventions of the two major parties". thegreenpapers.com.
- ^ a b Rymph, Catherine E. (2006). Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage Through the Rise of the New Right. University of North Carolina Press. p. 27. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
- ^ "Milestones: Women in the GOP". National Federation of Republican Women. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
- ^ a b Suydam, Henry (June 11, 1924). "Wizard Evans Leads Drive on Anti-Klan Plank". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Newspapers.com. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
- ^ a b "Ku Klux Klan: Kleveland Konvention". Time. Vol. III, no. 25. June 23, 1924.
- ^ "Cover". Time. June 23, 1924. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
- ^ "Ku Klux Klan: Kleveland Konvention". Time. June 23, 1924. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
- ISBN 9781351981859.
- ISBN 0-8047-2081-9.
- ^ a b c Oulahan, Richard V. (June 10, 1924). "Kenyon Leads for Second Place on Convention Eve, New Move to "Draft" Lowden Fails; Hoover Strong; La Follette Starts Fight for a Radical Platform". The New York Times. Retrieved October 9, 2015.
- ^ a b c "Coolidge and Dawes Nominated; General Named for Second Place After Lowden, Chosen, Refuses it". The New York Times. June 13, 1924. Retrieved October 9, 2015.
- ^ Official Report of the Proceedings of the Eighteenth Republican National Convention (1924), pp. 37
- ^ Official Report of the Proceedings of the Eighteenth Republican National Convention (1928), pp. 7–9
- ^ Official Report of the Proceedings of the Eighteenth Republican National Convention, published by the Republican National Committee (1924), pp. 49–50
- ^ Official Report of the Proceedings of the Eighteenth Republican National Convention, published by the Republican National Committee (1924), pp. 125–26
External links
- Republican Party platform of 1924 at The American Presidency Project
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