1976 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection

none 1976 Republican vice presidential nomination primary 1968 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection 1968 1980 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection 1980 1976 08 19 160x160px Bob Dole FF3333 Kansas Vice Presidential nominee Spiro Agnew Bob Dole This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1976 election. At the 1976 Republican National Convention, incumbent President Gerald Ford narrowly won the presidential nomination over former California Governor Ronald Reagan. Ford had decided not to choose incumbent Vice President Nelson Rockefeller as his running mate, due to Rockefeller's unpopularity with the right wing of the Republican Party and Rockefeller wanting to retire from politics all together, which probably hurt his campaign for doing so.Roberts Sam Serving as Ford's No. 2, Rockefeller Never Took His Eye Off Top Job https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/nyregion/31rocky.html 5 October 2015 New York Times 31 December 2016 He instead chose Senator Bob Dole of Kansas. Dole was acceptable to the conservative wing of the party, and Ford hoped that Dole would help the ticket win the western states and the agricultural vote.Mieczkowski Yanek https://books.google.com/books?id=qpfzsnHAzZAC&q=gerald%20ford%201976%20running%20mate&pg=PA320 Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s 22 April 2005 University Press of Kentucky 0813172055 320–323 5 October 2015 The Ford–Dole ticket ultimately lost to the Carter–Mondale ticket in the general election. Though he would not win the presidential nomination, Reagan announced before the convention that he would pick Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania as his running mate.Negrin Matt Risky strategy that doomed Reagan in '76 could boost Democrats https://archive.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/02/24/risky_strategy_that_doomed_reagan_in_76_could_boost_democrats/ 27 April 2016 Boston Globe 24 February 2008 Dole went on to become Senate Republican leader, and the Republican presidential nominee in 1996 but ultimately lost to incumbent President Bill Clinton in the general election. Potential candidates Sigelman Lee Wahlbeck Paul December 1997 The "Veepstakes": Strategic Choice in Presidential Running Mate Selection The American Political Science Review 91 4 858 10.2307/2952169 2952169Edwards, Anne 1988 Shirley Temple: American Princess William Morrow and Company, Inc. 341 978-0-688-06051-0 May 12, 2008 Senators say whether they'd agree to be vice president http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/senators-say-whether-theyd-agree-to-be-vice-president-2008-05-12.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080517001022/http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/senators-say-whether-theyd-agree-to-be-vice-president-2008-05-12.html May 17, 2008 May 7, 2017 The Hill had the pleasure of being on Gerald Ford's short list in '76 Nominee Other potential candidates See also Gerald Ford 1976 presidential campaign 1976 Republican Party presidential primaries 1976 Republican National Convention 1976 United States presidential election List of United States major party presidential tickets References Category:Republican Party (United States) vice presidential nominees Category:1976 United States presidential election Category:Gerald Ford Category:Bob Dole Category:Ronald Reagan