List of Democratic National Conventions

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

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.

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|James D. Richardson of Tennessee

|1900 platform

|William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska

|Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois

|–9

|1904

|St. Louis Coliseum, St. Louis

|John Sharp Williams of Mississippi

|Champ Clark of Missouri

|1904 platform

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|Alton B. Parker of New York

|Henry G. Davis of West Virginia

|–10

|1908

|Denver Auditorium Arena, Denver

|Colorado

|Theodore Bell of California

|Henry D. Clayton of Alabama

|1908 platform

|William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska

|John W. Kern of Indiana

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–July 2

|1912

|Fifth Regiment Armory, Baltimore

|Maryland

|Alton B. Parker of New York

|Ollie M. James of Kentucky

|1912 platform

|Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey

| rowspan="2" |Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–16

|1916

|Convention Hall, St. Louis

|Missouri

|Ollie M. James of Kentucky

|1916 platform

|Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey (speech)

|–July 6

|1920

|Civic Auditorium, San Francisco

|California

|Homer Stille Cummings of Connecticut

|Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas

|1920 platform

|James M. Cox of Ohio

|Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York

|–July 9

|1924

|Madison Square Garden, New York

|New York

|Martin H. Glynn of New York

|Thomas J. Walsh of Montana

|1924 platform

|John W. Davis of New York

|Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska

|–29

|1928

|Sam Houston Hall, Houston

|Texas

|Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas

|1928 platform

|Al Smith of New York (speech)

|Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–July 2

|1932

|Chicago Stadium, Chicago

|Illinois

|Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky

|Thomas J. Walsh of Montana

|1932 platform

|Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (speech)

| rowspan="2" |John Nance Garner of Texas

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–27

|1936

|Convention Hall and Franklin Field, Philadelphia

|Pennsylvania

|Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas

|1936 platform

|Acclamation

|Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (speech)

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–18

|1940

| rowspan="2" |Chicago Stadium, Chicago

| rowspan="2" |Illinois

|Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky

|1940 platform

|Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (speech)

|Henry A. Wallace of Iowa

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–21

|1944

|Robert Kerr of Oklahoma

|Samuel D. Jackson of Indiana

|1944 platform

|Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (speech)

|Harry S. Truman of Missouri

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–14

|data-sort-value="1948"|194810

|Convention Hall, Philadelphia

|Pennsylvania

|Sam Rayburn of Texas

|1948 platform

|Harry S. Truman of Missouri (speech)

|Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky

|–26

|1952

| rowspan="2" |International Amphitheatre, Chicago

| rowspan="2" |Illinois

|Sam Rayburn of Texas

|1952 platform

|Adlai Stevenson of Illinois (speech)

|John Sparkman of Alabama

|–17

|1956

|Sam Rayburn of Texas

|1956 platform

|Adlai Stevenson of Illinois (speech)

|Estes Kefauver of Tennessee

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–15

|1960

|Memorial Sports Arena and Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles

|California

|LeRoy Collins of Florida

|1960 platform

|John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts (speech)

|Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–27

|1964

|Convention Hall, Atlantic City

|New Jersey

|John W. McCormack of Massachusetts

|1964 platform

|Acclamation

|Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas (speech)

|Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota

|–29

|1968

|International Amphitheatre, Chicago

|Illinois

|Carl Albert of Oklahoma

|1968 platform

| rowspan="2" |

|Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota (speech)

|Edmund Muskie of Maine

|–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

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–15

|1976

|Madison Square Garden, New York

|New York

|Lindy Boggs of Louisiana

|1976 platform

|Jimmy Carter of Georgia (speech)

|Walter Mondale of Minnesota

|–14

|1980

|Madison Square Garden, New York

|New York

|Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts

|1980 platform

| rowspan="3" |

|Jimmy Carter of Georgia (speech)

|Walter Mondale of Minnesota

|–19

|1984

|Moscone Center, San Francisco

|California

|Martha Layne Collins of Kentucky

|1984 platform

|Walter Mondale of Minnesota (speech)

|Geraldine Ferraro of New York

|–21

|1988

|The Omni, Atlanta

|Georgia

|Jim Wright of Texas

|1988 platform

|Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts (speech)

|Lloyd Bentsen of Texas

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–16

|1992

|Madison Square Garden, New York

|New York

|Ann Richards of Texas

|1992 platform

|Bill Clinton of Arkansas (speech)

| rowspan="2" |Al Gore of Tennessee

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–29

|1996

|United Center, Chicago

|Illinois

|Dick Gephardt of Missouri Tom Daschle of South Dakota

|1996 platform

|Acclamation

|Bill Clinton of Arkansas (speech)

|- style="background:lemonchiffon"

|–17

|2000

|Staples Center, Los Angeles

|California

|Terry McAuliffe of New York

|2000 platform

|Acclamation

|Al Gore of Tennessee (speech)

|Joe Lieberman of Connecticut

|–29

|2004

|FleetCenter, Boston

|Massachusetts

|Bill Richardson of New Mexico

|2004 platform

|John Kerry of Massachusetts (speech)

|John Edwards of North Carolina

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–28

|2008

|Pepsi Center and Invesco Field, Denver

|Colorado

|Howard Dean of Vermont

|Nancy Pelosi of California

|2008 platform

| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1" |1 / Acclamation

|Barack Obama of Illinois (speech)

| rowspan="2" |Joe Biden of Delaware

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–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)

|- style="background:lemonchiffon"

|–28

|2016

|Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia

|Pennsylvania

|Stephanie Rawlings-Blake of Maryland12

|Marcia Fudge of Ohio

|2016 platform

|Hillary Clinton of New York (speech)

|Tim Kaine of Virginia

|- style="background:lightcyan"

|–2013

|2020

| Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee Various locations remotely14

|Wisconsin

| Not chosen

| Bennie Thompson of Mississippi

| 2020 platform

| Joe Biden of Delaware (speech)

| Kamala Harris of California

|–22

|2024

|United Center, Chicago

|Illinois

|TBA

|Minyon Moore of Illinois

|2024 platform

|Kamala Harris of California (speech)

|Tim Walz of Minnesota

|TBD

|2028

|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.

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.

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)

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 the Democratic National Committee replaced her with Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in the wake of the Wasserman Schultz/DNC e-mail leak scandal. Wasserman Schultz resigned as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee effective after the close of the convention.

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.

Keynote speakers

1896 – U.S. Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia
1900 – Governor Charles S. Thomas of Colorado
1904 – U.S. Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi
1912 – Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York
1916 – Governor Martin Glynn of New York
1920 – DNC Chair Homer Cummings of Connecticut
1924 – U.S. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi
1928 – Claude Bowers of New York
1932 – U.S. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky
1936 – U.S. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky and U.S. Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas
1940 – U.S. Representative William Bankhead of Alabama
1944 – Governor Robert Kerr of Oklahoma
1948 – U.S. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky
1952 – Governor Paul Dever of Massachusetts
1956 – Governor Frank Clement of Tennessee
1960 – U.S. Senator Frank Church of Idaho
1964 – U.S. Senator John O. Pastore of Rhode Island
1968 – U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii
1972 – Governor Reubin Askew of Florida
1976 – U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas and U.S. Senator John Glenn of Ohio
1980 – U.S. Representative Mo Udall of Arizona
1984 – Governor Mario Cuomo of New York