1952 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection

none 1952 Republican vice presidential nomination California Richard Nixon Earl Warren Vice Presidential nominee FF3333 Richard Nixon 160x160px 1952 07 11 1960 1960 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection 1948 1948 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection primary Senator Richard M. Nixon's speech at a state Republican Party fundraiser in New York City on May 8, 1952, impressed Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who was an Eisenhower supporter and had organized a pro-Eisenhower delegation from New York to attend the national convention.Gellman Irwin F. 2017 The Contender: Richard Nixon, the Congress Years, 1946-1952 https://books.google.com/books?id=b2osDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA418 New Haven, CT Yale University Press 418 978-0-3002-2020-9 Gellman In a private meeting following the speech, Dewey suggested to Nixon that he would make a suitable vice presidential candidate to run alongside Eisenhower.Gellman 418-419 Nixon attended the convention as a delegate pledged to Earl Warren and represented California on the convention's platform committee.Gellman 426 In pre-convention remarks to reporters, Nixon touted Warren as the most prominent dark horse and suggested that if Warren was not the presidential nominee, Nixon's Senate colleague William Knowland would be a good choice for vice president.Gellman 429 As the convention proceedings continued, Warren became concerned that Nixon was working for Eisenhower while ostensibly pledged to Warren.Gellman 432 Warren asked Paul H. Davis of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, who had been a vice president at Columbia University while Eisenhower was the school's president, to tell Eisenhower that Warren resented such actions and wanted them to stop.Gellman 426 Eisenhower informed Davis that he did not oppose Warren, because if Taft and Eisenhower deadlocked, then Warren would be his first choice for the nomination.Gellman 433 In the same conversation, Eisenhower indicated that if he won the nomination, Nixon would be his first choice for the vice presidency, because Eisenhower believed the party needed to promote leaders who were aggressive, capable, and young.Gellman 433-434 Eisenhower later developed a list of seven potential candidates, with Nixon's name at the top.Ambrose Stephen E. 1987 Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913-1962 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=Lx5q7HHePF8C&pg=PA249 New York, NY Simon & Schuster 262 978-0-6716-5722-2 Stephen E. Ambrose Ambrose After Eisenhower was nominated, his key supporters met to discuss vice presidential possibilities.Ambrose 262 Eisenhower informed the group's chairman, Herbert Brownell Jr. that he did not wish to appear to dictate to the convention by formally sponsoring a single candidate, so the group reviewed several, including Taft, Everett Dirksen, and Alfred E. Driscoll, all of whom they quickly rejected.Ambrose 262 Dewey then raised Nixon's name; the group quickly concurred.Ambrose 262-263 Brownell checked with Eisenhower, who indicated his approval.Ambrose 263 Brownell then called Nixon to inform him that he was Eisenhower's choice.Ambrose 262-263 Nixon accepted, then departed for Eisenhower's hotel room to discuss the details of the campaign and Eisenhower's plans for his vice president if the ticket was successful in the general election.Ambrose 263 The delegates soon assembled to formalize the selection.Ambrose 264 Nixon asked Knowland to nominate him, and Knowland agreed.Ambrose 264 After Taft supporter John W. Bricker declined Nixon's request to second the nomination, Driscoll agreed to do so.Ambrose 264-265 There were no other candidates, and Nixon was nominated by acclamation.Ambrose 265 Months after the convention, Eisenhower considered asking Nixon to step down as running mate due to controversy surrounding campaign expenses, but Nixon rallied public opinion with his Checkers speech and remained on the ticket.VP Richard Nixon https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Richard_Nixon.htm US Senate 7 October 2015 The Eisenhower–Nixon ticket won the 1952 election, defeating the Stevenson–Sparkman ticket, as well as the 1956 election, in which they defeated the ticket of Stevenson and Kefauver.1969 Historical Review of Presidential Candidates from 1788 to 1968 Congressional Quarterly Service Washington, DC 20 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Historical_Review_of_Presidential_Candid/IGw9AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=&pg=PA20 Google Books Nixon was the Republican presidential nominee in 1960 but lost to John F. Kennedy in the close general election.Hughes Ken Richard Nixon: Life in Brief https://millercenter.org/president/nixon/life-in-brief Miller Center.org Charlottesville, Virginia University of Virginia 15 June 2026 He lost the election for California governor in 1962, but was elected president in 1968 and 1972. Potential running mates Finalists Others See also 1952 Republican National Convention References Category:Republican Party (United States) vice presidential nominees Category:1952 United States presidential nominating conventions Category:Dwight D. Eisenhower Category:Richard Nixon