The 1952 Republican National Convention

Republican National Convention

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was held at the International Amphitheatre

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 in Chicago, Cook County

Cook County, Illinois

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, Illinois

Illinois

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 from July 7 to July 11, 1952 and nominated the popular general and war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas

Kansas

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, also known as "Ike," for president

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 and the anti-communist

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 crusading Senator

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 from California

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, Richard Milhous Nixon

Richard Nixon

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, for vice president

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.

The Republican platform pledged to end the unpopular war in Korea

Korean War

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, to fire all "the loafers, incompetents and unnecessary employees" at the State Department

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, condemned the Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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 and Truman

Harry S. Truman

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 administrations' economic policies, supported retention of the Taft-Hartley Act

Taft-Hartley Act

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, and pledged to bring an end to ´"Communist Subversion" in the United States.

Candidates before the convention

• Businessman Riley A. Bender
  Riley A. Bender
  Riley Alvin Bender was a United States businessman and political candidate.Born in Chicago, Illinois to Edward Bender and Josephine David Bender, he was a lifelong resident of his native city. Bender was an entrepreuer in the areas of hotel and music store management...
  
   of Illinois
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• Governor
  Governor of South Dakota
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   George T. Mickelson
  George T. Mickelson
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   of South Dakota
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• Representative Thomas H. Werdel
  Thomas H. Werdel
  Thomas Harold Werdel was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in Emery, Hanson County, South Dakota, Werdel moved with his parents to Kern County, California, in 1915. He attended the public schools and Kern County Union High School...
  
   of California
  California
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Balloting

Presidential

Presidential Balloting, RNC 1952
Contender: Ballot	1st Before Shifts	1st After Shifts
General Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...	595	845
Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft	500	280
Governor Earl Warren Earl Warren Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.He is known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring...  of California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...	81	77
former Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...  Governor Harold Stassen Harold Stassen Harold Edward Stassen was the 25th Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943. After service in World War II, from 1948 to 1953 he was president of the University of Pennsylvania...	20	0
General Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the...	10	4

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