1952 Republican National Convention
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The 1952 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held in 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 U.S. 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 ยด"Communist Subversion" in the United States.
Other candidates were the former governor of Minnesota Harold E. Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert A Taft (also known as "Mr. Republican") and California Congressman Thomas Werdel. The next Chief Justice of the United States, California Governor Earl Warren, was also a candidate.
| Preceded by: 1948 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Republican National Conventions | Succeeded by: 1956 San Francisco, California |
[edit] See also
- List of Republican National Conventions
- 1952 Democratic National Convention
- U.S. presidential nominating convention
- U.S. presidential election, 1952
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