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The 1960 Democratic National Convention was held in Los Angeles, California, on July 11–15, 1960. It nominated Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts for president and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas for vice president.
Some of the nominees (e.g. the Whigs before 1860 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912) received very large votes, while others who received less than 1% of the total national popular vote are listed to show historical continuity or transition.
Hace 2 días · On the late Friday afternoon of July 15, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts appeared before a crowd of eighty thousand people in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to deliver his formal acceptance of the Democratic party’s nomination for President of the United States.
The 1960 Democratic National Convention was held in Los Angeles. It nominated Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts for President and Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas for Vice President. In the general election, the Kennedy-Johnson ticket won an electoral college victory and... Read all.
Starting with the 1796 election, congressional party or a state legislature party caucus selected the party's presidential candidates. [3] That system collapsed in 1824, and since 1832 the preferred mechanism for nomination has been a national convention. [4]
Since the Founding Fathers never planned for political parties when they were writing the nation’s governing documents, the process of nominating candidates for president and vice president from respective parties grew organically and (at least at first) without a clear set of rules to govern them.1 Over time however, these conventions became mo...
Full text and audio mp3 and video of John F. Kennedy's 1960 Democratic National Convention Address.
