OHIO
Archaeological and Historical
SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS
OHIO IN THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
CONVENTIONS
BY CHARLES A. JONES
Since the organization of the
Republican party in
1854, there have been nineteen national
conventions of
the party. Only two of these have been
held within the
borders of Ohio, but in their
proceedings, taken as a
whole, no other state has even
approximately played the
prominent part that has been given to
sons of the Buck-
eye State. The nineteen volumes which
officially record
the proceedings of these great
conventions are full of
the sayings and doings of men from
Ohio.
From eleven of the nineteen
conventions, sons of
Ohio have emerged as nominees for
President, and from
four others, as nominees for
Vice-President. In only
five of the nineteen has no Ohio man
been placed on
the ticket. Hayes, Garfield, McKinley
(twice), Taft
(twice), and Harding were actual
residents of Ohio
when nominated for President. Grant and
Benjamin
Harrison, each nominated twice, were
sons of the state
who resided elsewhere when nominated.
Reid in 1892,
Fairbanks in 1904 and 1916 and Dawes in
1920 were
Ohio's Vice-Presidential sons. No
actual resident of
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