1880 Prohibition National Convention

American political convention January 2025 1880 Prohibition Neal Dow daguerreotype.jpg 150x150px Henry A. Thompson.jpg 150x150px Nominees Dow and Thompson June 17, 1880 Halle's Hall Cleveland, Ohio Neal Dow Maine Henry Adams Thompson Ohio 1876 1884 142 142 142 The 1880 Prohibition Party National Convention convened in Halle's Hall in Cleveland, Ohio on June 17, 1880 to select presidential and vice presidential nominees for the 1880 United States presidential election. Delegates unanimously chose Neal Dow of Maine for President and Henry Adams Thompson of Ohio for Vice President. They were both nominated by a founder of the party, James Black. Dow and Thompson left the convention as the party's nominees, but in the end, they lost. The election was a close contest between the Republican, James A. Garfield, and the Democrat, Winfield Scott Hancock, with Garfield being the victor. The Prohibition Party placed a distant fourth, netting just over 0.1% of the popular vote. Presidential nomination On June 17, 1880, the national convention was called to open and was attended by 142 delegates. Reverend Alonzo Ames Miner was selected to serve as the president of the convention. Neal Dow, the former mayor of Portland, Maine and a former Civil War general, and Henry Adams Thompson were nominated for the presidential and vice presidential nominations by James Black, hoping that other national figures would seek the party's nomination, and they were approved by acclamation.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47527239/the-greeley-tribune/ The National Prohibition Convention June 25, 1880 The Greeley Tribune live https://web.archive.org/web/20200328182803/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47527239/the-greeley-tribune/ March 28, 2020 1 Newspapers.comhttps://books.google.com/books?id=0VRsAAAAQBAJ&q=1880+Prohibition+National+Convention&pg=PA59 The Politics of Prohibition Andersen Lisa M. F. September 9, 2013 Cambridge University Press 59 9781107029378 Google Books Presidential Ballot Unanimous Vice Presidential Ballot UnanimousNeal Dow 142 Henry Adams Thompson 142 Platform Although the platforms of the party in 1872 and 1876 included support and opposition to multiple issues, the platform drafted and accepted at the 1880 national convention only included support for issues relating to the prohibition of alcohol and women's suffrage due to the fact that the narrow gauger faction, which supported a single issue prohibitionist platform, was the group writing it.https://ia800503.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/28/items/PartisanProphetsAHistoryOfTheProhibitionParty1854-1972/prohibition_jp2.zip&file=prohibition_jp2/prohibition_0010.jp2&scale=2&rotate=0 Page 9 Partisan prophets; a history of the Prohibition Party, 1854-1972https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47527301/the-western-call/ Prohibition July 2, 1880 The Western Call live https://web.archive.org/web/20200328183141/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47527301/the-western-call/ March 28, 2020 2 Newspapers.com Candidates Neal Dow Neal Dow In 1880, Maine Republicans refused to pass more anti-alcohol legislation, and Dow quit the party to join the Prohibitionists,Byrne Frank L Prophet of Prohibition: Neal Dow and His Crusade State Historical Society of Wisconsin 1961 Madison, Wisconsin 2126034 he quickly became the party's most prominent member. His friend and ally James Black requested that Dow's name be placed in nomination for the presidency at the 1880 convention, to which Dow agreed. He unanimously nominated and the Prohibition ticket polled just 10,305 votes, 0.1% of the total.Clancy Herbert J. https://archive.org/details/presidentialelec0000clan The Presidential Election of 1880 Loyola University Press 1958 978-1-258-19190-0 registration Henry Adams Thompson Henry Adams ThompsonThompson had identified with the Republican Party since its founding in the 1850s, but in 1874 he left it to join the Prohibition Party.Kleppner Paul The Third Electoral System 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures 1979 University of North Carolina Press 978-0-8078-1328-7 Chapel Hill Aftermath The Prohibition Party received 10,305 votes and no electoral votes, compared to 4,446,158 for the winner, Republican James A. Garfield, and 4,444,260 for Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock.Ackerman Kenneth D Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield Da Capo Press 978-0786713967 April 15, 2004 Petersen Svend A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections Frederick Ungar New York, New York 1963 500975 https://www.questia.com/read/6505563/a-statistical-history-of-the-american-presidential May 30, 2015 November 7, 2020 Questia subscription https://web.archive.org/web/20201107215109/https://www.questia.com/read/6505563/a-statistical-history-of-the-american-presidential dead 2019-11-05 1880 Electoral College Results https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1880 2025-01-03 National Archives en James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur Republican Ohio New York 4,454,443 48.32% 214 Winfield Scott Hancock William Hayden English Democratic Pennsylvania Indiana 4,444,976 48.21% 155 James B. Weaver Barzillai J. Chambers Greenback Iowa Texas 308,649 3.35% 0 Neal Dow Henry Adams Thompson Prohibition Maine Ohio 10,364 0.11% 0 John W. Phelps Samuel C. Pomeroy Anti-Masonic Vermont Kansas 1,045 0.01% 0 9,219,477 369 185 See also 1880 Republican National Convention 1880 Democratic National Convention 1880 Greenback National Convention References Category:Prohibition National Conventions Category:1880 conferences Category:1880 United States presidential election Prohibition National Convention Category:19th century in Cleveland Category:United States presidential nominating conventions in Cleveland Prohibition National Convention