1952 Republican National Convention

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Attendees at the 1952 convention

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.

1 Candidates before the convention
2 Balloting
- 2.1 Presidential
  - 2.1.1 Vice Presidential
3 See also

[edit] Candidates before the convention

Businessman Riley A. Bender of Illinois	Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York	General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York	General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of Arkansas
Governor George T. Mickelson of South Dakota	Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon	Former Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota	Senator Robert Taft of Ohio
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan	Governor Earl Warren of California	Representative Thomas H. Werdel of California

[edit] Balloting

[edit] Presidential

Contender: Ballot	1st Before Shifts	1st After Shifts
Presidential Balloting, RNC 1952
General Dwight D. Eisenhower	595	845
Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft	500	280
Governor Earl Warren of California	81	77
former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen	20	0
General Douglas MacArthur	10	4
Governor Thomas E. Dewey	1	0