1952 Republican National Convention Totally Explained

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The 1952 Republican National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois from July 7 to July 11, 1952 and nominated the popular general and war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas, also known as "Ike," for president and the anti-communist crusading Senator from California, Richard Milhous Nixon, for vice president.
The Republican platform pledged to end the unpopular war in Korea, to fire all "the loafers, incompetents and unnecessary employees" at the State Department, condemned the Roosevelt and Truman administrations' economic policies, supported retention of the Taft-Hartley Act, and pledged to bring an end to ´"Communist Subversion" in the United States.

Candidates before the convention

Image:Replace this image male.svg|Businessman Riley A. Bender of Illinois Image:Thomas E. Dewey.jpg|Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York Image:EisenhowerChiefofStaffPortrait.jpg|General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York Image:MacArthur Manila.jpg|General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of Arkansas Image:Replace this image male.svg|Governor George T. Mickelson of South Dakota Image:Wayne Morse.jpg|Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon Image:Harold E. Stassen.jpg|Former Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota Image:Robert a taft.jpg|Senator Robert Taft of Ohio Image:Arthur H. Vandenberg.jpg|Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan Image:Earl Warren Portrait, half figure, seated, facing front, as Governor.jpg|Governor Earl Warren of California Image:Replace this image male.svg|Representative Thomas H. Werdel of California

Balloting

Presidential

Contender: Ballot	st Before Shifts	1st After Shifts
Presidential Balloting, RNC 1952
General Dwight D. Eisenhower	95	845
Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft	00	280
Governor Earl Warren of California	1	77
former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen	0	0
General Douglas MacArthur	0	4
Governor Thomas E. Dewey		0

Vice Presidential

Richard Nixon was nominated unanimously.

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