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1928 Democratic National Convention
1928 Democratic National Convention
1928 Democratic National Convention Date Venue City Presidential Nominee Vice Presidential Nominee June 26 - June 28 Sam Houston Hall Houston, Texas Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas
The 1928 Democratic National Convention was held at Sam Houston Hall in Houston, Texas from June 26 - June 28, 1928. The convention resulted in the nomination of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for President and Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas for Vice-President. The convention was the first held by either party in the South since the Civil War. It was also the first to nominate a Roman Catholic for President, Al Smith. The Texas delegation, led by Governor Dan Moody, was vehemently opposed to Smith. Therefore, when Smith was nominated, they rallied against his anti-prohibition sentiment by fighting for a "dry", prohibitionist platform. Ultimately, the convention pledged "honest enforcement of the Constitution". Smith became the first Democrat since Reconstruction to lose more than one southern state in the general election, due to his "wet" stance, his opposition to the Ku Klux Klan, and his Catholicism.
• James T. Heflin, U.S. senator from Alabama • Gilbert M. Hitchcock, former U.S. senator from Nebraska • Cordell Hull, U.S. representative from Tennessee • Jesse H. Jones, businessman from Texas • William G. McAdoo, former Treasury Secretary from California • Edwin T. Meredith, former Agriculture Secretary from Indiana • Atlee Pomerene, former U.S. senator from Ohio • Henry T. Rainey, U.S. representative from Illinois • James A. Reed, U.S. senator from Missouri • Al Smith, Governor of New York • Houston Thompson, Colorado delegate • Thomas J. Walsh, U.S. senator from Montana • Richard C. Watts, Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court • Evans Woollen, football coach from Indiana • Alonzo F. Workman, candidate from Oregon
Candidates for the VicePresidential Nomination
• Henry T. Allen, retired U.S. Army major general from Kentucky • Alben W. Barkley, U.S. senator from Kentucky • George L. Berry, Owner and publisher from Tennessee • Duncan U. Fletcher, U.S. senator from Florida • Daniel Moody, Governor of Texas • Joseph T. Robinson, Senate Minority Leader from Arkansas • Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross, former Governor of Wyoming • Lewis G. Stevenson, son of former Vice President Adlai Stevenson I from Illinois • John H. Taylor • Joseph P. Tumulty, delegate from New Jersey
Candidates for the nomination before and during the convention
• William A. Ayres, U.S. representative from Kansas • Theodore G. Bilbo, U.S. senator from Mississippi • A. Victor Donahey, Governor of Ohio • Walter F. George, U.S. senator from Georgia • Pat Harrison, U.S. senator from Mississippi
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Preceded by 1924 Democratic National Conventions
1928 Democratic National Convention
Succeeded by 1932
• Evans Woollen, football coach from Indiana
• 1928 Republican National Convention
See also
• Democratic National Convention • United States presidential election, 1928
External links
• Governor Moody and the "Dry" Platform
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