![]() ![]() ![]() Watson of Georgia for Vice President, by the National Silver Republican Party meeting on July 22, and by the People's Party (Populists) meeting on July 25. Palmer of Illinois for President and former Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky for Vice President.ĩ Bryan was later nominated for President in St. Bryan's candidacy convened as the National Democratic Party in Indianapolis on September 2, and nominated John M. Ĩ "Gold" Democrats opposed to the Free Silver plank of the 1896 platform and to Wm J. A dissident group of Straight-Out Democrats, meeting in Louisville, Kentucky on September 3, nominated Charles O'Conor of New York for President and John Quincy Adams II of Massachusetts for Vice President, but both men declined the nomination. Gratz Brown had already been endorsed by the Liberal Republican Party, meeting on May 1 in Cincinnati. ( 1860 Southern Democratic platform)Ħ Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama was first nominated but he declined the nomination.ħ Greeley and B. Breckinridge of Kentucky was nominated for the presidency and Joseph Lane of Oregon was nominated for the vice presidency. ![]() At their convention Caleb Cushing again served as permanent chair and John C. The convention bolters soon formed their own convention, located at the Maryland Institute, also in Baltimore, on June 28, 1860. Polk of Tennessee in the election of 1840.ģ Silas Wright of New York was first nominated and he declined the nomination.Ĥ Caleb Cushing resigned as permanent chair.ĥ Douglas and Johnson were chosen as the candidates of the Front Street Theater convention after most of the Southern delegations walked out. Most Van Buren electors voted for Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky for the vice presidency others voted for Littleton Waller Tazewell of Virginia and James K. 1 A resolution endorsing "the repeated nominations which he has received in various parts of the Union" was passed by the convention.Ģ A resolution stating "that the convention deem it expedient at the present time not to choose between the individuals in nomination, but to leave the decision to their Republican fellow-citizens in the several states" was passed by the convention. ![]()
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