1948 Republican National Convention

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1948 Republican National Convention
Convention Hall
Candidates
Presidential nomineeThomas E. Dewey of New York
Vice presidential nomineeEarl Warren of California
‹ 1944 · 1952 ›

The 1948 Republican National Convention was held at the

Municipal Auditorium, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, from June 21 to 25, 1948.

general election to the Democratic ticket of Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley. One of the decisive factors in convening both major party conventions in Philadelphia that year was that Philadelphia was hooked up to the coaxial cable, giving the ability for two of the three then-young television networks, NBC and CBS, to telecast for the first time live gavel-to-gavel coverage along the East Coast. Only a few minutes of kinescope film have survived of these historic, live television broadcasts.[1]

Platform

The party platform formally adopted at the convention included the following points:

Candidates before the convention

Balloting

Presidential Balloting
Candidate 1st 2nd 3rd
Dewey 434 515 1,094
Taft 224 274 0
Stassen 157 149 0
Vandenberg 62 62 0
Warren 59 57 0
Green 56 0 0
Driscoll 35 0 0
Baldwin 19 19 0
Martin 18 10 0
Reece 15 1 0
MacArthur 11 7 0
Dirksen 1 0 0
Not Voting 3 0 0


Presidential Balloting / 4th Day of Convention (June 24, 1948)

  • 1st Presidential Ballot
    1st Presidential Ballot
  • 2nd Presidential Ballot
    2nd Presidential Ballot
  • 3rd Presidential Ballot
    3rd Presidential Ballot

As of 2020, this was the last Republican Convention to go past the first ballot.

Vice presidential nomination

Dewey had a long list of

Charles Halleck of Indiana, former Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota, and California Governor Earl Warren
.

Dewey chose Warren, who was subsequently nominated by acclaimation.

The Dewey–Warren ticket was the last to consist of two current or former state governors until 2016, when former governors Gary Johnson and Bill Weld ran on the Libertarian Party ticket.

See also

References

  1. ^ Simmons, Amy V. (5 August 2016). "The first televised Democratic Convention, 70 years later: An unplanned delegate remembers". Philadelphia Sun. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Republican Party Platform of 1948".

External links

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Chicago, Illinois
Republican National Conventions Succeeded by
Chicago, Illinois