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What was the first presidential election where candidates were nominated at party conventions?
a. 1796
b. 1832
c. 1880
d. 1972


The 1832 presidential election was the first in which parties held conventions to nominate presidential candidates. In previous elections, presidential nominees were selected by members of Congress convening in private caucuses.

The Anti-Masonic Party and the National Republican Party, both forerunners to the Whig Party, held the first nominating conventions in 1831. Although the National Republican Convention was not seriously contested due to Henry Clay's popularity within the party, it did feature the first keynote convention address. The Democratic Party held its first convention in spring 1832. Incumbent Andrew Jackson (D) did not face a serious convention challenge, but the party nominated Martin Van Buren (D) to replace John C. Calhoun (D) as Jackson's running mate. The rules adopted at the 1832 Democratic Convention were used as the model for future national conventions' proceedings. All three conventions were held in Baltimore.[1]

The only city to have hosted more major-party political conventions than Baltimore is Chicago. While Baltimore has played host to 10 conventions (including nine Democratic conventions and one Republican), Chicago has hosted 25 national conventions—14 Republican and 11 Democratic. The only other cities to have hosted more than five conventions are Philadelphia with eight and New York with six. Including Milwaukee, which hosted the Democratic National Convention for the first time in 2020, 27 cities have hosted major party political conventions.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ ThoughtCo, "The First American Political Conventions," January 30, 2019
  2. ↑ The American Presidency Project at UC Santa Barbara, "Cities That Have Hosted National Conventions," accessed May 20, 2019
  3. ↑ About.com American History, "Democratic National Conventions," accessed March 30, 2014
  4. ↑ About.com American History, "Republican National Conventions," accessed May 1, 2024
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