Samuel M. Ralston
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Samuel Moffett Ralston was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as the 28th governor of the U.S. state of Indiana and a United States senator from Indiana.
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Ralston's childhood home in Owen County
Jennie Craven, Ralston's second wife
The 1924 Democratic National Convention, held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City from June 24 to July 9, 1924, was the longest continuously running convention in United States political his
Samuel M. Ralston
…Ralston was expected to be the Democratic presidential nominee but, for reasons he did not reveal at the time, he dropped out of the race just before the convention. Despite Ralston's withdrawal, his ally and friend Thomas Taggart seemed about to enable Ralston's nomination as a compromise to resolve the McAdoo-Smith…
Nominees Davis and Bryan
FDR Nominating Smith June 26 1924
John William Davis
Former governor James M. Cox of Ohio