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1976 Democratic National Convention

Index 1976 Democratic National Convention

The 1976 Democratic National Convention met at Madison Square Garden in New York City, from July 12 to July 15, 1976. [1]

66 relations: Adlai Stevenson III, Allard K. Lowenstein, Arizona, Barbara Jordan, California, Carl Albert, Cesar Chavez, Daniel Schorr, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1976, Deregulation, Edmund Muskie, Ellen McCormack, Frank Church, Fred R. Harris, Fritz Hollings, George McGovern, George Wallace, Georgia (U.S. state), Gerald Ford, Governor of California, Henry M. Jackson, History of the United States Democratic Party, Hubert Humphrey, Hugh Carey, Hunter S. Thompson, Jennings Randolph, Jerry Brown, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, John Glenn, Keynote, Leon Jaworski, Lindy Boggs, List of Democratic National Conventions, List of Governors of Georgia, Madison Square Garden, Mentorship, Miami Beach, Florida, Milton Shapp, Minnesota, Mo Udall, New York City, OPEC, Peter F. Flaherty, Peter W. Rodino, Philip Hart, President of the United States, Robert Byrd, ..., Ron Dellums, Running mate, Ted Kennedy, Thomas E. Morgan, Ticket (election), United States House of Representatives, United States presidential election, 1976, United States presidential nominating convention, United States Senate, Vice President of the United States, Walter Mondale, Wendell Anderson, 1924 Democratic National Convention, 1972 Democratic National Convention, 1976 Republican National Convention, 1980 Democratic National Convention. Expand index (16 more) »

Adlai Stevenson III

Adlai Ewing Stevenson III (born October 10, 1930) is an American politician of the Democratic Party.

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Allard K. Lowenstein

Allard Kenneth Lowenstein (January 16, 1929 – March 14, 1980)Lowenstein's gravestone, Arlington National Cemetery; on the cemetery's official website.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Barbara Jordan

Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator and politician who was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carl Albert

Carl Bert Albert (May 10, 1908 – February 4, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 46th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977, representing Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1947 to 1977.

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Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez (born César Estrada Chávez,; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) in 1962.

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Daniel Schorr

Daniel Louis Schorr (August 31, 1916 – July 23, 2010) was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years.

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Democratic National Convention

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1832 by the United States Democratic Party.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1976

The 1976 Democratic presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 1976 U.S. presidential election.

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Deregulation

Deregulation is the process of removing or reducing state regulations, typically in the economic sphere.

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Edmund Muskie

Edmund Sixtus Muskie (March 28, 1914March 26, 1996) was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951, and the Democratic Party's candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 election.

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Ellen McCormack

Ellen Cullen McCormack (September 15, 1926 – March 27, 2011) was a candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1976.

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Frank Church

Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Fred R. Harris

Fred Roy Harris (born November 13, 1930) is a former Democratic United States Senator from the state of Oklahoma.

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Fritz Hollings

Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings (born January 1, 1922) is a former American politician who served as a United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005.

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George McGovern

George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.

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George Wallace

George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977.

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Governor of California

The Governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.

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Henry M. Jackson

Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 – September 1, 1983) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative (1941–1953) and U.S. Senator (1953–1983) from the state of Washington.

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History of the United States Democratic Party

The Democratic Party is the oldest voter-based political party in the world and the oldest existing political party in the United States, tracing its heritage back to the anti-Federalists and the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party of the 1790s.

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Hubert Humphrey

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States from 1965 to 1969.

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Hugh Carey

Hugh Leo Carey (April 11, 1919 – August 7, 2011) was an American politician and attorney.

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Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement.

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Jennings Randolph

Jennings Randolph (March 8, 1902May 8, 1998) was an American politician from West Virginia.

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Jerry Brown

Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American politician, author and lawyer serving as the 39th and current Governor of California since 2011, previously holding the position from 1975 to 1983, making him the state's longest-serving Governor.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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John Glenn

Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio.

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Keynote

A keynote in public speaking is a talk that establishes a main underlying theme.

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Leon Jaworski

Leonidas "Leon" Jaworski (September 19, 1905 – December 9, 1982) was an American attorney and law professor who served as the second special prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal.

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Lindy Boggs

Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, usually known as Lindy Boggs (March 13, 1916 – July 27, 2013), was a United States politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as United States Ambassador to the Holy See.

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List of Democratic National Conventions

This is a list of Democratic National Conventions.

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List of Governors of Georgia

The Governor of Georgia is the head of the executive branch of Georgia's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often called "MSG" or simply "The Garden", is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Mentorship

Mentorship is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person.

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Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

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Milton Shapp

Milton Jerrold Shapp (June 25, 1912 – November 24, 1994) was the 40th Governor of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1979 and the first Jewish governor of Pennsylvania.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Mo Udall

Morris King Udall (June 15, 1922 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Arizona from May 2, 1961 to May 4, 1991.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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OPEC

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC,, or OPEP in several other languages) is an intergovernmental organization of nations, founded in 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela), and headquartered since 1965 in Vienna, Austria.

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Peter F. Flaherty

Peter Francis Flaherty (June 25, 1924 – April 18, 2005) was an American politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Peter W. Rodino

Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. (June 7, 1909 – May 7, 2005) was a Democratic United States congressman from New Jersey from 1949 to 1989.

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Philip Hart

Philip Aloysius Hart (December 10, 1912December 26, 1976) was an American lawyer and politician.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Robert Byrd

Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917June 28, 2010) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia from 1959 to 2010.

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Ron Dellums

Ronald Vernie Dellums (born November 24, 1935) is an American politician who served as Oakland's forty-eighth (and third African-American) mayor.

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Running mate

A running mate is a person running together with another person on a joint ticket during an election.

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Ted Kennedy

Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009.

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Thomas E. Morgan

Thomas Ellsworth Morgan (October 13, 1906 – July 31, 1995) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

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Ticket (election)

A ticket refers to a single election choice which fills more than one political office or seat.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States presidential election, 1976

The United States presidential election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976.

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United States presidential nominating convention

A United States presidential nominating convention is a political convention held every four years in the United States by most of the political parties who will be fielding nominees in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States (informally referred to as VPOTUS, or Veep) is a constitutional officer in the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States as the President of the Senate under Article I, Section 3, Clause 4, of the United States Constitution, as well as the second highest executive branch officer, after the President of the United States.

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Walter Mondale

Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, and as a United States Senator from Minnesota (1964–76).

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Wendell Anderson

Wendell Richard "Wendy" Anderson (February 1, 1933 – July 17, 2016) was an American hockey player, politician and the 33rd governor of Minnesota, serving from January 4, 1971, to December 29, 1976.

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1924 Democratic National Convention

The 1924 Democratic National Convention, held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City from June 24 to July 9, 1924, was the longest continuously running convention in United States political history.

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1972 Democratic National Convention

The 1972 Democratic National Convention was the presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party for the 1972 presidential election.

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1976 Republican National Convention

The 1976 Republican National Convention was a United States political convention of the Republican Party that met from August 16 to August 19, 1976, to select the party's nominee for President.

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1980 Democratic National Convention

The 1980 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party nominated President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale for reelection.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Democratic_National_Convention

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