1956 Republican National Convention

The 1956 Republican National Convention was held by the Republican Party of the United States at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California, from August 20 to August 23, 1956. U.S. Senator William F. Knowland was temporary chairman and former speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin Jr. served as permanent chairman. It renominated President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon as the party's candidates for the 1956 presidential election.

1956 Republican National Convention
1956 presidential election
Nominees
Eisenhower and Nixon
Convention
Date(s)August 20–23, 1956
CityDaly City, CA
VenueCow Palace
Candidates
Presidential nomineeDwight D. Eisenhower of Pennsylvania[1]
Vice presidential nomineeRichard M. Nixon of California
Convention-goers at the 1956 Republican National Convention holding signs for Richard Nixon.

Eisenhower was expected to be renominated by acclamation at the Convention until a lone delegate decided to vote for a fictitious candidate named "Joe Smith". He voted the same when Nixon was nominated.

On August 23, 1956, singer Nat King Cole spoke at the Republican Convention.

The 1956 Republican convention was held after that year's Democratic National Convention. This was unusual, as since 1864, in every election but 1888, Democrats had held their convention second.[2] It has become an informal tradition that the party holding the White House (which, accordingly, in 1956 had been the Republican Party) hosts their convention second, but it is unclear when this tradition began (Democrats had held the White House and held their conventions second between 1936 and 1952, but it is unclear whether they scheduled their conventions second in these years because of their White House incumbency, or whether they scheduled them second because it was traditional that Democratic National Conventions had been held after the Republican National Convention).[2]

See also

References
  1. Nichols, David A. (2011). Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. p. 250. ISBN 978-1-4391-3934-9. At 9:13, Ike, Mamie and Dr. Snyder departed by car for Gettysburg, where the Eisenhowers, as Pennsylvania residents, were obligated to vote.
  2. "Whose Convention Goes First?". Slate Magazine. 3 August 2000. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
Preceded by
1952
Chicago, Illinois		 Republican National Conventions Succeeded by
1960
Chicago, Illinois
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