Share This
1972 Democratic National Convention
The 1972 Democratic National Convention was the presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party for the 1972 presidential election. It was held at Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida on July 10-13, 1972.
It nominated Senator George McGovern of South Dakota for President...
Learn more about 1972 Democratic National Convention »
Add More Topics
Save this view to a base, or just for yourself.
about 77 VP Delegate Vote Tally topics matching:
Filter this Collection
Thomas Eagleton
Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was a United States Senator from Missouri, serving from 1968–1987. He is best remembered for briefly being a Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, sharing the ticket under George McGovern...
Tally:
- 1,742
Frances Farenthold
Frances Tarlton Farenthold (born 1926), commonly referred to as Sissy Farenthold, is an American Democratic politician, attorney and educator, who was the third woman whose name was put into nomination for Vice President of the United States at a...
Tally:
- 405
Mike Gravel
Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (pronounced /ɡrəˈvɛl/; born May 13, 1930) is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election.
Born and raised in...
Tally:
- 226
Endicott Peabody
Endicott "Chub" Peabody (February 15, 1920–December 1, 1997) was Governor of Massachusetts from January 3, 1963 to January 7, 1965.
Peabody was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts; he served in the United States Navy during World War II, where he was...
Tally:
- 108
Clay Smothers
Tally:
- 74
Birch Bayh
Birch Evans Bayh II (born January 22, 1928) is a former United States Senator from Indiana (1963 to 1981). He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in the 1976 election but lost to Jimmy Carter. He is the father of former...
Tally:
- 62
Peter W. Rodino
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. (June 7, 1909 – May 7, 2005) was an Italian-American Democratic United States Congressman from New Jersey from 1949 to 1989. Rodino rose to prominence as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where he was chair of...
Tally:
- 57
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office....
Tally:
- 30
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator, and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she...
Tally:
- 20
Moon Landrieu
Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu (born July 23, 1930) is a Democratic politician from Louisiana who served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1970–1978. He also is a former judge. He represented New Orleans' Twelfth Ward in the Louisiana House of...
Tally:
- 19
Edward T. Breathitt
Edward Thompson "Ned" Breathitt Jr. (born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on November 26, 1924, died in Lexington, Kentucky on October 11, 2003) was a United States politician. He was elected governor of Kentucky in 1963.
Breathitt served in the U.S. Army...
Tally:
- 18
Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected in November 1962, he was elected nine times and served for 46 years in the U.S....
Tally:
- 15
Fred R. Harris
Fred Roy Harris (born November 13, 1930) was a Democratic United States Senator from the state of Oklahoma from 1964 until 1973.
Harris was born in Cotton County, Oklahoma. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1952 and its law school in...
Tally:
- 14
Richard G. Hatcher
Richard G. Hatcher (born July 10, 1933, Michigan City, Indiana) became on January 1, 1967 , the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana. He had won election the previous November as one of the first black mayors elected in a northern...
Tally:
- 11
Harold Hughes
Harold Everett Hughes (February 10, 1922 – October 23, 1996) was the Democratic Governor of Iowa from 1963 until 1969; he had been a Republican earlier in his life. He also served as a Democratic United States Senator from 1969 until 1975.
Hughes...
Tally:
- 10
Joseph Montoya
Joseph Manuel Montoya (September 24, 1915 – June 8, 1978) was a Democratic U.S. Senator for the State of New Mexico from 1964 until 1977.
Montoya was born in Peña Blanca, New Mexico. His parents, Thomas and Frances Montoya, were Roman Catholic...
Tally:
- 9
Adlai Stevenson III
Adlai Ewing Stevenson III (born October 10, 1930, in Chicago) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the state of Illinois in the United States Senate from 1970 until 1981.
He received a law degree in (1957).
Stevenson was...
Tally:
- 8
William L. Guy
William Lewis Guy (born September 30, 1919) was the governor of the U.S. state of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973. At 90, he is the second oldest of the six living current or past governors of North Dakota.
Guy was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota....
Tally:
- 8
César Chávez
César Estrada Chávez (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was a Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers...
Tally:
- 5
Robert Bergland
Robert Selmer Bergland (born July 22, 1928, in Roseau, Minnesota) is a United States politician. He grew up on a farm (where he still lives) near Roseau, and studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota in a two year program. He became an...
Tally:
- 5
Wilbur Mills
Wilbur Daigh Mills (May 24, 1909 – May 2, 1992), was a powerful Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Arkansas. He was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in the 1960s, and briefly a candidate...
Tally:
- 5
John J. Houlihan
Tally:
- 4
Roberto Mondragon
Roberto A. Mondragon was the Green Party candidate for governor of New Mexico in 1994, receiving 10.4% of the vote (47,080 votes) , and coming in third. Prior to this, he served as Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico from 1971–1974 and from 1979–1982,...
Tally:
- 4
Ron Dellums
Ronald Vernie "Ron" Dellums (born November 24, 1935 in Oakland, California) serves as Oakland's third African-American mayor. From 1971-1998, he was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Northern California...
Tally:
- 4
Stanley Arnold
Tally:
- 4
Wendell Anderson
Wendell Richard "Wendy" Anderson, (born February 1, 1933) in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is an American politician and was the 33rd Governor of Minnesota from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976. In late 1976, he resigned the governor's office in order...
Tally:
- 4
Claiborne Pell
Claiborne de Borda Pell (November 22, 1918 – January 1, 2009) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving six terms from 1961 to 1997, and was best known as the sponsor of the Pell Grant, which provides financial aid funding to U.S....
Tally:
- 3
Eugene McCarthy
Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy (March 29, 1916–December 10, 2005) was an American politician, poet, and a long-time member of the United States Congress from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the U.S....
Tally:
- 3
Herman Badillo
Herman Badillo (born August 21, 1929) is a Bronx, New York politician who has been a borough president, United States Representative, and candidate for Mayor of New York City. He was the first Puerto Rican to be elected to these posts and be a...
Tally:
- 3
Reubin O'Donovan Askew
Reubin O'Donovan Askew (born September 11, 1928) is an American politician, who served as the 37th governor of the U.S. state of Florida from 1971 to 1979.
Askew was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, one of the six children of Leon G. Askew and Alberta...
Tally:
- 3
Terry Sanford
James Terry Sanford (August 20, 1917 – April 18, 1998) was a United States politician and educator from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford was the Governor of North Carolina (1961–1965), a two-time U.S. Presidential candidate...
Tally:
- 3
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American United States Democratic Party politician. He served in the United States Congress, as governor of Connecticut and as President John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Health,...
Tally:
- 2
Bruno Agnoli
Tally:
- 2
Claude Pepper
Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for liberalism and the elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s. He...
Tally:
- 2
Edmund Muskie
Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie (March 28, 1914–March 26, 1996) was an American Democratic politician from Maine. He served as Governor of Maine, as U.S. Senator, and as U.S. Secretary of State. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1968,...
Tally:
- 2
Ernest Gruening
Ernest Henry Gruening (February 6, 1887 – June 26, 1974) was an American journalist and Democrat who was the Governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from Alaska from 1959 until 1969.
Born in New York City,...
Tally:
- 2
Hoyt Patrick Taylor, Jr.
Hoyt Patrick "Pat" Taylor, Jr. (born 1924) is a North Carolina politician and attorney who served as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives and as Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina.
Pat Taylor was born in Wadesboro, NC, on April...
Tally:
- 2
John DeCarlo
Tally:
- 2
Leonard F. Wodcoock
Tally:
- 2
Richard J. Daley
Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) served for 21 years as the undisputed Democratic boss of Chicago and is considered by historians to be the "last of the big city bosses." He played a major role in the history of the Democratic...
Tally:
- 2
Roger Mudd
Roger Mudd (born February 9, 1928) is an U.S. television journalist and broadcaster, most recently as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor of CBS Evening News, co-anchor of the...
Tally:
- 2
Albert Gore, Sr.
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Sr. (December 26, 1907 – December 5, 1998) was an American politician, serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party from Tennessee.
Gore had two children, Nancy LaFon Gore, born in 1938, who...
Tally:
- 1
Allard K. Lowenstein
Allard Kenneth Lowenstein, (January 16, 1929 – March 14, 1980), was a liberal Democratic politician, a one-term congressman representing the 5th District in Nassau County, New York from 1969 until 1971. His work on civil rights and the antiwar...
Tally:
- 1
Archibald Burton
Tally:
- 1
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than...
Tally:
- 1
Charles Hamilton
Tally:
- 1
Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan, SJ (born May 9, 1921) is a poet, American peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. Daniel and his brother Philip were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for committing acts of vandalism including destroying...
Tally:
- 1
Daniel Inouye
Daniel Ken "Dan" Inouye (Japanese: 井上 建, Inoue Ken; born September 7, 1924) is an American politician who currently serves as the senior United States Senator from Hawaii. He has been a U.S. Senator since 1963 and, following the recent death of Ted...
Tally:
- 1
Ernest Albright
Tally:
- 1
Frank Church
Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was a United States Senator from Idaho, serving four terms from 1957 to 1981. Church was a member of the Idaho Democratic Party.
Frank Church was raised in Boise, Idaho. In his youth, Church...
Tally:
- 1
Frederic Seaman
Frederic ("Fred") Seaman, (born October 10, 1952) is the former personal assistant to John Lennon and Yoko Ono, during the former Beatle's final years, when Lennon and Ono lived in The Dakota Apartments in New York City.
Seaman first met the Lennons...
Tally:
- 1
George McGovern
George Stanley McGovern (born July 19, 1922) is a former United States Representative, Senator, and Democratic presidential nominee. McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election in a landslide to Richard Nixon. As a decorated World War II combat...
Tally:
- 1
George Norcross III
George Norcross III (1957-) is an American political boss and prolific fundraiser for Democratic Party organizations in the south region of New Jersey. He is also the chief executive of Commerce National Insurance, a subsidiary of Commerce Bancorp....
Tally:
- 1
George Wallace
George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919–September 13, 1998), was a governor of Alabama for four terms; 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. "The most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and...
Tally:
- 1
Henry M. Jackson
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 – September 1, 1983) was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from the state of Washington from 1941 until his death. Jackson was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and...
Tally:
- 1
John Z. Goodrich
John Z. Goodrich was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. He was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts on September 27, 1804. He attended the common schools...
Tally:
- 1
Julian Bond
Horace Julian Bond, known as Julian Bond, (born January 14, 1940) is an American social activist and leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, politician, professor and writer. While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the...
Tally:
- 1
Lawton Chiles
Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. In a career spanning four decades, Chiles, a Democrat who never lost an election, served in the Florida House of Representatives...
Tally:
- 1
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (simplified Chinese: 毛泽东; traditional Chinese: 毛澤東; pinyin: Máo Zédōng; Wade-Giles: Mao Tse-tung) pronunciation (help·info) (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and Communist leader. He...
Tally:
- 1
Martha Beall Mitchell
Martha Elizabeth Beall Mitchell (2 September 1918 – 31 May 1976), wife of John Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon. Martha Mitchell was famous for her phone calls to the press about matters the Nixon-era...
Tally:
- 1
