Ohio History Journal


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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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