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1832 Democratic National Convention
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The 1832 Democratic National Convention was held from May 21st to the 23rd, in Baltimore, Maryland. This was the first national convention of the Democratic Party of the United States; it followed presidential nominating conventions held in 1831 by the Anti-Masonic Party and the National Republican Party. The purpose of the convention was to choose a running mate for incumbent President Andrew Jackson.
It was chaired and presided over by Robert Lucas. Peter Vivian Daniel, James Fenner, John M. Barclay, and Augustin Smith Clayton were chosen as convention vice presidents. John Adams Dix was appointed secretary at the first meeting, with other additional secretaries thereafter. A resolution was passed by the convention requiring two-thirds support of the delegates for a nomination. Martin Van Buren of New York was nominated for Vice President of the United States after he won more than two-thirds of the delegates' votes over Philip Pendleton Barbour and Richard Mentor Johnson. The convention endorsed the prior nominations in various areas of the United States of Jackson for the presidency. The convention concluded by adopting a resolution calling for an address or report from the delegations to their constituents.
An address by the Republican delegates of New York gave a history of previous national political contests in the United States. They denounced the National Republicans as Federalists under a new designation and they denounced the Nullifiers while they declared that their own party held the middle ground between the two. The address described what they believed to be similarities between Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson and it defended the policies of Jackson's administration.
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