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1876 Election
In 1876 the Republican party nominated Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio for president and William A. Wheeler of New York for vice president.
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1900 Election
In 1900 the Republicans nominated President William McKinley.
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1952 Election
When President Harry S. Truman declined to run for a third term, the Democratic convention nominated Governor Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois for president on the third ballot.
The Republican presidential nominee in 1928 was Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover of California. Charles Curtis of Kansas was his running mate. The Democrats nominated Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York, and Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas.
The Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) and religion--Al Smith was Catholic--dominated a campaign that was marked by anti-Catholicism. Hoover firmly supported Prohibition, whereas Smith, an avowed wet, favored repeal. Many Americans found the urban and cultural groups that the cigar-smoking Smith epitomized frightening; Hoover seemed to stand for old-fashioned rural values. The Republican campaign slogan promised the people "a chicken for every pot and a car in every garage."
The election produced a high voter turnout. The Republicans swept the electoral college, 444 to 87, and Hoover's popular majority was substantial: 21,392,190 to Smith's 15,016,443. The Democrats, however, carried the country's twelve largest cities; the support for Smith in urban America heralded the major political shift to come.
The Reader's Companion to American History. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, Editors. Copyright © 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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