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U.S. political event held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The
1936 Democratic National Convention
was held in
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
from June 23 to 27, 1936. The convention resulted in the nomination of
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
and
Vice President
John N. Garner
for reelection.
Changes to rules
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At the 1936 Democratic Convention, the rule requiring candidates for
President
and
Vice President
to have a majority of two-thirds of the delegates votes to win nomination, which had existed since 1832, was abolished.
Roosevelt had long pushed for the rule's abolition, in part due to past deadlocks: for example, the
1924 convention
had required 103 ballots over roughly two weeks to nominate
John W. Davis
.
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The conventioneers provided that a simple majority of delegates would be required to win nomination, allowing for candidates to more easily be nominated and thus produce less balloting. In this regard, only one Democratic Convention after 1932 has required multiple ballots (that of
1952
, which required three).
This also began the decline of the
South's
clout at Democratic conventions, making it easier for the Democrats to begin adopting
civil rights
and other liberal ideas into their
platforms
, since the two-thirds rule had long given the South a
de facto
veto power on presidential nominees.
With the rule's abolition, Missouri Senator
Bennett Champ Clark
noted that "the Democratic Party is no longer a sectional party, it has become a great national party."
[1]
Southern Democrats would continue to decline in power,
[1]
ultimately leading to the
Dixiecrat
movement and Nixon's 1968
Southern strategy
.
South Carolina Senator
Ellison D. Smith
walked out of the convention once he saw that a black minister,
Marshall L. Shepard
, was going to deliver the invocation.
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Results
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The Balloting:
Democratic National Convention presidential vote, 1936
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Candidates
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Name
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Certified Votes
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Voice Vote(100.00%)
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Margin
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0 (0.00%)
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President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner were renominated by acclamation without need for a roll-call vote.
In his acceptance speech on June 27 at the adjacent
Franklin Field
, Roosevelt remarked, "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
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