The 1952 Republican National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois from July 7 to 11, 1952, and nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York, nicknamed "Ike", for pr
Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower watching a television during the convention
MacArthur delivering the keynote address
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York
Governor Earl Warren of California
Robert A. Taft
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Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. was an American politician and lawyer who represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1939 until his death in 1953. A member of the Republican Party, he briefly served a
1952 Republican National Convention
…Dewey, the party's unsuccessful presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948, were largely supporters of Eisenhower or Warren. The conservative wing was led by Robert A. Taft, who had unsuccessfully tried for the presidential nomination in 1940 and 1948. In a pre-convention fight over the seating of delegates, Eisenhower…
Taft during his Senate tenure, from the US Senate Historical Office collection
Rudolf Anton Bernatschke's portrait of Taft standing in front of what would later become the Frances Perkins Department of Labor Building on Constitution Avenue