List of Democratic National Conventions

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Map of states that have hosted a Democratic National Convention

This is a list of Democratic National Conventions. These conventions are the presidential nominating conventions of the Democratic Party of the United States of America.

List of Democratic National Conventions

• Conventions whose nominees won the subsequent presidential election are tinted in light blue.
• Four other conventions — in 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016 — which nominated candidates who won the popular vote, but not the Electoral College, are tinted in pale yellow.

Dates<ref name="CQ">Template:Cite book</ref>	Year	Location	State	Temporary Chair	Permanent Chair	Platform <ref name="UCSB">American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara, at http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/platforms.php (retrieved February 3, 2012)</ref>	Ballots<ref name="CQ"/>	Presidential Nominee<ref name="UCSB"/>	Vice Presidential Nominee
Template:Date table sorting–23	1832	The Athenaeum and Warfield's Church, Baltimore	Maryland	Template:Data missing	Robert Lucas of Ohio	–	Template:Center	Andrew Jackson of Tennessee1	Martin Van Buren of New York
Template:Date table sorting–22	1835	Fourth Presbyterian Church, Baltimore			Andrew Stevenson of Virginia			Martin Van Buren of New York	Richard Johnson of Kentucky
Template:Date table sorting–6	1840	The Assembly Rooms, Baltimore	Maryland	Template:Data missing	William Carroll of Tennessee	1840 platform	Template:Center	Martin Van Buren of New York	–2
Template:Date table sorting–29	1844	Odd Fellows Hall, Baltimore	Maryland	Template:Data missing	Hendrick Bradley Wright of Pennsylvania	1844 platform	Template:Center	James K. Polk of Tennessee	George M. Dallas of Pennsylvania3
Template:Date table sorting–25	1848	Universalist Church, Baltimore	Maryland	J. S. Bryce of Louisiana	Andrew Stevenson of Virginia	1848 platform	Template:Center	Lewis Cass of Michigan	William O. Butler of Kentucky
Template:Date table sorting–5	1852	Maryland Institute, Baltimore	Maryland	Romulus M. Saunders of North Carolina	John Davis of Indiana	1852 platform	Template:Center	Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire	William R. King of Alabama
Template:Date table sorting–6	1856	Smith and Nixon's Hall, Cincinnati	Ohio	Template:Data missing	John Elliot Ward of Georgia	1856 platform	Template:Center	James Buchanan of Pennsylvania	John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky
Template:Date table sorting–May 3	1860	South Carolina Institute Hall, Charleston	South Carolina	Template:Data missing	Caleb Cushing of Massachusetts	See below	Template:Center	Deadlocked
Template:Date table sorting–23	1860	Front Street Theater, Baltimore	Maryland		Caleb Cushing of Massachusetts4 David Tod of Ohio	1860 N.D. platform	Template:Center	Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois5	Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia5,6
Template:Date table sorting–31	1864	The Amphitheatre, Chicago	Illinois		Horatio Seymour of New York	1864 platform	Template:Center	George B. McClellan of New Jersey	George H. Pendleton of Ohio
Template:Date table sorting–9	1868	Tammany Hall, New York City	New York	Henry L. Palmer of Wisconsin	Horatio Seymour of New York	1868 platform	Template:Center	Horatio Seymour of New York	Francis P. Blair Jr. of Missouri
Template:Date table sorting–10	18727	Ford's Grand Opera House, Baltimore	Maryland	Thomas Jefferson Randolph of Virginia	James R. Doolittle of Wisconsin	1872 platform	Template:Center	Horace Greeley of New York7	B. Gratz Brown of Missouri7
Template:Date table sorting–29	1876	Merchant's Exchange Building, St. Louis	Missouri	Template:Data missing	John A. McClernand of Illinois	1876 platform	Template:Center	Samuel J. Tilden of New York	Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana
Template:Date table sorting–24	1880	Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati	Ohio	George Hoadly of Ohio	John W. Stevenson of Kentucky	1880 platform	Template:Center	Winfield S. Hancock of Pennsylvania	William H. English of Indiana
Template:Date table sorting–11	1884	Interstate Exposition Building, Chicago	Illinois	Richard B. Hubbard of Texas	William F. Vilas of Wisconsin	1884 platform	Template:Center	Grover Cleveland of New York	Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana
Template:Date table sorting–7	1888	Exposition Building, St. Louis	Missouri	Template:Data missing	Patrick Collins of Massachusetts	1888 platform	Template:Center	Grover Cleveland of New York	Allen G. Thurman of Ohio
Template:Date table sorting–23	1892	Wigwam, Chicago	Illinois	William Claiborne Owens of Kentucky	William Lyne Wilson of West Virginia	1892 platform	Template:Center	Grover Cleveland of New York	Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois
Template:Date table sorting–11	18968	Chicago Coliseum, Chicago	Illinois	John W. Daniel of Virginia	Stephen M. White of California	1896 platform	Template:Center	William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska9	Arthur Sewall of Maine
Template:Date table sorting–6	1900	Convention Hall, Kansas City	Missouri	Charles Thomas of Colorado<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>	James D. Richardson of Tennessee	1900 platform	Template:Center	William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska	Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois
Template:Date table sorting–9	1904	St. Louis Coliseum, St. Louis		John Sharp Williams of Mississippi<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>	Champ Clark of Missouri	1904 platform	Template:Center	Alton B. Parker of New York	Henry G. Davis of West Virginia
Template:Date table sorting–10	1908	Denver Auditorium Arena, Denver	Colorado	Theodore Bell of California<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>	Henry D. Clayton of Alabama	1908 platform		William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska	John W. Kern of Indiana
Template:Date table sorting–July 2	1912	Fifth Regiment Armory, Baltimore	Maryland	Alton B. Parker of New York<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>	Ollie M. James of Kentucky	1912 platform	Template:Center	Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey	Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana
Template:Date table sorting–16	1916	Convention Hall, St. Louis	Missouri	Template:Data missing	Ollie M. James of Kentucky	1916 platform	Template:Center	Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey (speech)
Template:Date table sorting–July 6	1920	Civic Auditorium, San Francisco	California	Homer Stille Cummings of Connecticut<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas	1920 platform	Template:Center	James M. Cox of Ohio	Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York
Template:Date table sorting–July 9	1924	Madison Square Garden, New York	New York	Martin H. Glynn of New York<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>	Thomas J. Walsh of Montana	1924 platform	Template:Center	John W. Davis of New York	Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska
Template:Date table sorting–29	1928	Sam Houston Hall, Houston	Texas	Template:Data missing	Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas	1928 platform	Template:Center	Al Smith of New York (speech)	Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas
Template:Date table sorting–July 2	1932	Chicago Stadium, Chicago	Illinois	Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky	Thomas J. Walsh of Montana	1932 platform	Template:Center	Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (speech)	John Nance Garner of Texas
Template:Date table sorting–27	1936	Convention Hall and Franklin Field, Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	Template:Data missing	Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas	1936 platform	Acclamation	Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (speech)
Template:Date table sorting–18	1940	Chicago Stadium, Chicago	Illinois	Template:Data missing	Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky	1940 platform	Template:Center	Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (speech)	Henry A. Wallace of Iowa
Template:Date table sorting–21	1944			Robert Kerr of Oklahoma	Samuel D. Jackson of Indiana	1944 platform	Template:Center	Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (speech)	Harry S. Truman of Missouri
Template:Date table sorting–14	194810	Convention Hall, Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	Template:Data missing	Sam Rayburn of Texas	1948 platform	Template:Center	Harry S. Truman of Missouri (speech)	Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky
Template:Date table sorting–26	1952	International Amphitheatre, Chicago	Illinois	Template:Data missing	Sam Rayburn of Texas	1952 platform	Template:Center	Adlai Stevenson of Illinois (speech)	John Sparkman of Alabama
Template:Date table sorting–17	1956			Template:Data missing	Sam Rayburn of Texas	1956 platform	Template:Center	Adlai Stevenson of Illinois (speech)	Estes Kefauver of Tennessee
Template:Date table sorting–15	1960	Memorial Sports Arena and Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles	California	Template:Data missing	LeRoy Collins of Florida	1960 platform	Template:Center	John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts (speech)	Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas
Template:Date table sorting–27	1964	Convention Hall, Atlantic City	New Jersey	Template:Data missing	John W. McCormack of Massachusetts	1964 platform	Acclamation	Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas (speech)	Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota
Template:Date table sorting–29	1968	International Amphitheatre, Chicago	Illinois	Template:Data missing	Carl Albert of Oklahoma	1968 platform	Template:Center	Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota (speech)	Edmund Muskie of Maine
Template:Date table sorting–13	1972	Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach	Florida	Daniel Inouye of Hawaii	Lawrence F. O'Brien of Massachusetts	1972 platform		George McGovern of South Dakota (speech)	Thomas Eagleton of Missouri11
Template:Date table sorting–15	1976	Madison Square Garden, New York	New York	Template:Data missing	Lindy Boggs of Louisiana	1976 platform	Template:Center	Jimmy Carter of Georgia (speech)	Walter Mondale of Minnesota
Template:Date table sorting–14	1980	Madison Square Garden, New York	New York	Template:Data missing	Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts	1980 platform	Template:Center	Jimmy Carter of Georgia (speech)	Walter Mondale of Minnesota
Template:Date table sorting–19	1984	Moscone Center, San Francisco	California	Template:Data missing	Martha Layne Collins of Kentucky	1984 platform		Walter Mondale of Minnesota (speech)	Geraldine Ferraro of New York
Template:Date table sorting–21	1988	The Omni, Atlanta	Georgia	Template:Data missing	Jim Wright of Texas	1988 platform		Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts (speech)	Lloyd Bentsen of Texas
Template:Date table sorting–16	1992	Madison Square Garden, New York	New York	Template:Data missing	Ann Richards of Texas	1992 platform	Template:Center	Bill Clinton of Arkansas (speech)	Al Gore of Tennessee
Template:Date table sorting–29	1996	United Center, Chicago	Illinois	Template:Data missing	Dick Gephardt of Missouri Tom Daschle of South Dakota	1996 platform	Acclamation	Bill Clinton of Arkansas (speech)
Template:Date table sorting–17	2000	Staples Center, Los Angeles	California	Template:Data missing	Terry McAuliffe of New York	2000 platform	Acclamation	Al Gore of Tennessee (speech)	Joe Lieberman of Connecticut
Template:Date table sorting–29	2004	FleetCenter, Boston	Massachusetts	Template:Data missing	Bill Richardson of New Mexico	2004 platform	Template:Center	John Kerry of Massachusetts (speech)	John Edwards of North Carolina
Template:Date table sorting–28	2008	Pepsi Center and Invesco Field, Denver	Colorado	Howard Dean of Vermont	Nancy Pelosi of California	2008 platform	1 / Acclamation	Barack Obama of Illinois (speech)	Joe Biden of Delaware
Template:Date table sorting–6	2012	Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte	North Carolina	Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida	Antonio Villaraigosa of California	2012 platform		Barack Obama of Illinois (speech)
Template:Date table sorting–28	2016	Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	Stephanie Rawlings-Blake of Maryland12	Marcia Fudge of Ohio	2016 platform	Template:Center	Hillary Clinton of New York (speech)	Tim Kaine of Virginia
Template:Date table sorting–2013	2020	Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee Various locations remotely14	Wisconsin	Not chosen	Bennie Thompson of Mississippi	2020 platform	Template:Center	Joe Biden of Delaware (speech)	Kamala Harris of California
Template:Date table sorting–22	2024	United Center, Chicago	Illinois	TBA	Minyon Moore of Illinois	2024 platform	Template:Center	Kamala Harris of California (speech)	Tim Walz of Minnesota
TBD	2028	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Footnotes

¹[1832] A resolution endorsing "the repeated nominations which he [Jackson] has received in various parts of the Union" was passed by the convention.
²[1840] A resolution stating "that the convention deem it expedient at the present time not to choose between the individuals in nomination, but to leave the decision to their Republican fellow-citizens in the several states" was passed by the convention. Most Van Buren electors voted for Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky for the vice presidency; others voted for Littleton Waller Tazewell of Virginia and James K. Polk of Tennessee in the election of 1840.
³[1844] Silas Wright of New York was first nominated and he declined the nomination.
⁴[1860 June] Caleb Cushing resigned as permanent chair.
⁵[1860 June] Douglas and Johnson were chosen as the candidates of the Front Street Theater convention after most of the Southern delegations walked out. The convention bolters soon formed their own convention, located at the Maryland Institute, also in Baltimore, on June 28, 1860. At their convention Caleb Cushing again served as permanent chair and John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky was nominated for the presidency and Joseph Lane of Oregon was nominated for the vice presidency. (1860 Southern Democratic platform)
⁶[1860 June] Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama was first nominated but he declined the nomination.
⁷[1872] Greeley and B. Gratz Brown had already been endorsed by the Liberal Republican Party, meeting on May 1 in Cincinnati. A dissident group of Straight-Out Democrats, meeting in Louisville, Kentucky on September 3, nominated Charles O'Conor of New York for President and John Quincy Adams II of Massachusetts for Vice President, but both men declined the nomination.<ref>Tim Taylor, The Book of Presidents, Arno Press, New York, 1972, page 215. Template:ISBN</ref>
⁸[1896] "Gold" Democrats opposed to the Free Silver plank of the 1896 platform and to Wm J. Bryan's candidacy convened as the National Democratic Party in Indianapolis on September 2, and nominated John M. Palmer of Illinois for President and former Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky for Vice President.
⁹[1896] Bryan was later nominated for President in St. Louis, together with Thomas E. Watson of Georgia for Vice President, by the National Silver Republican Party meeting on July 22, and by the People's Party (Populists) meeting on July 25.<ref>Tim Taylor, The Book of Presidents, Arno Press, New York, 1972, page 283.</ref>
¹⁰ [1948] Breakaway delegations left the Philadelphia Convention for conventions of the Progressive and States Rights Democratic Parties. The Progressives, meeting on July 23, also in Philadelphia, nominated former Vice President Henry A. Wallace of Iowa for President and Senator Glen H. Taylor of Idaho for Vice President. (1948 Progressive Party platform)
The States' Rights Democrats (or "Dixiecrats"), meeting in Birmingham, Alabama on July 17, nominated Governors Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for President and Fielding Wright of Mississippi for Vice President. (1948 States' Rights Democratic platform)<ref>Tim Taylor, The Book of Presidents, Arno Press, New York, 1972, page 470.</ref>
¹¹[1972] Eagleton withdrew his candidacy after the convention and was replaced by Sargent Shriver of Maryland.
¹²[2016] Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida was intended to be the Temporary Chair, but was substituted for Stephanie Rawlings-Blake by the Democratic National Committee in the wake of the Wasserman/DNC email leak scandal. Wasserman resigned as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee effective after the close of the convention.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
¹³[2020] Originally scheduled for July 13–16, and originally planned for the Fiserv Forum, but postponed and moved due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
¹⁴[2020] Centered in Milwaukee, but many speeches and roll call responses were given remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Keynote speakers

• 1896 – U.S. Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1900 – Governor Charles S. Thomas of Colorado<ref name="washingtonpost.com">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1904 – U.S. Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi<ref name="washingtonpost.com"/>
• 1908 – U.S. Representative Theodore Bell of California<ref>[1]Template:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
• 1912 – Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York
• 1916 – Governor Martin Glynn of New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1920 – DNC Chair Homer Cummings of Connecticut<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1924 – U.S. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1928 – Claude Bowers of New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1932 – U.S. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1936 – U.S. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky and U.S. Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1940 – U.S. Representative William Bankhead of Alabama<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1944 – Governor Robert Kerr of Oklahoma<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1948 – U.S. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky<ref name="loc.gov">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1952 – Governor Paul Dever of Massachusetts<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1956 – Governor Frank Clement of Tennessee<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1960 – U.S. Senator Frank Church of Idaho
• 1964 – U.S. Senator John O. Pastore of Rhode Island<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1968 – U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii
• 1972 – Governor Reubin Askew of Florida<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1976 – U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas and U.S. Senator John Glenn of Ohio<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1980 – U.S. Representative Mo Udall of Arizona
• 1984 – Governor Mario Cuomo of New York<ref name="loc.gov"/>
• 1988 – State Treasurer Ann Richards of Texas
• 1992 – U.S. Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas, and Governor Zell Miller of Georgia<ref name="loc.gov"/>
• 1996 – Governor Evan Bayh of Indiana
• 2000 – U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee
• 2004 – State Senator Barack Obama of Illinois
• 2008 – Governor Mark Warner of Virginia
• 2012 – Mayor Julián Castro of Texas
• 2016 – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
• 2020 – 17 speakers
• 2024 – County Executive Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland

Gallery of convention sites

• Wood engraving of the failed 1860 Charleston convention
  Wood engraving of the failed 1860 Charleston convention
• Tammany Hall decorated for the 1868 convention
  Tammany Hall decorated for the 1868 convention
• Interior of Ford's Grand Opera House during the 1872 convention
  Interior of Ford's Grand Opera House during the 1872 convention
• 1876 convention
  1876 convention
• 1880 convention.
  1880 convention.
• Diagram of Convention Hall, Chicago, site of the 1884 convention
  Diagram of Convention Hall, Chicago, site of the 1884 convention
• Opening session at the 1904 convention
  Opening session at the 1904 convention
• 1912 convention in-session
  1912 convention in-session
• 1924 convention in-session
  1924 convention in-session
• Photograph of the 1928 convention
  Photograph of the 1928 convention
• First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt speaking on the final day of the 1940 convention
  First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt speaking on the final day of the 1940 convention
• 1960 convention hall
  1960 convention hall
• 1964 convention floor
  1964 convention floor
• Carter and Mondale stand together at the end of the 1976 convention
  Carter and Mondale stand together at the end of the 1976 convention
• 1996 convention hall
  1996 convention hall
• Boston mayor Thomas Menino welcomes delegates to the 2004 convention
  Boston mayor Thomas Menino welcomes delegates to the 2004 convention
• Floor of the 2008 convention
  Floor of the 2008 convention
• Invesco Field, site of Barack Obama's 2008 acceptance speech
  Invesco Field, site of Barack Obama's 2008 acceptance speech
• Floor of the 2012 convention
  Floor of the 2012 convention
• Nominee Hillary Clinton speaks at the 2016 convention
  Nominee Hillary Clinton speaks at the 2016 convention

See also

• List of United States Democratic Party presidential tickets
• List of presidential nominating conventions in the United States
• List of Republican National Conventions
• List of Whig National Conventions
• United States presidential election
• United States presidential primary