1968 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection

none 1968 Republican vice presidential nomination primary 1964 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection 1964 1976 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection 1976 1968 08 08 160x160px Spiro Agnew FF3333 Maryland Vice Presidential nominee William E. Miller Spiro Agnew This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 election. After winning the Republican presidential nomination at the 1968 Republican National Convention, former Vice President Richard Nixon convened a series of meetings with close advisers and party leaders such as Strom Thurmond in order to choose his running mate.Wainstock Dennis https://books.google.com/books?id=mj70AgAAQBAJ Election Year 1968: The Turning Point 18 October 2013 Enigman Books 9781936274413 115–119 6 October 2015 Nixon ultimately asked the convention to nominate Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew as his running mate. By a large margin, Agnew won the vice presidential nomination on the first ballot over Michigan Governor George W. Romney, who was supported by a faction of liberal Republicans. Nixon chose Agnew because he wanted a centrist who was broadly acceptable to the party, had experience with domestic issues, and appealed to Southern voters (to counter the third party candidacy of former Alabama Governor George Wallace).Lippman Theo How the 1968 riots made Agnew's career https://www.baltimoresun.com/1998/04/05/how-the-1968-riots-made-agnews-career/ 6 October 2015 Baltimore Sun 5 April 1998 The Nixon–Agnew ticket defeated the Humphrey–Muskie ticket, and also won re-election in 1972, defeating the McGovern–Shriver ticket. However, Agnew was forced to resign as vice president in 1973 due to a controversy regarding his personal taxes. Despite being his running mate in 1960, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was not considered as a potential running mate for Nixon in 1968. Potential running mates Finalists Times Tom Wickerspecial To the New York 1968-08-09 NIXON SELECTS AGNEW AS HIS RUNNING MATE AND WINS APPROVAL AFTER FIGHT ON FLOOR;; REBELS PUT DOWN Fail in Effort to Have Convention Choose Romney Instead Nixon Selects Agnew for Running Mate; Decision Is Approved After a Floor Fight REBELS PUT DOWN BY A HEAVY VOTE They Fail in Effort to Have the Republican Convention Name Romney Instead https://www.nytimes.com/1968/08/09/archives/nixon-selects-agnew-as-his-running-mate-and-wins-approval-after.html 2022-11-27 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 Potential Declined to be considered See also 1968 Republican National Convention Republican Party presidential primaries, 1968 References Category:Republican Party (United States) vice presidential nominees Category:Richard Nixon 1968 presidential campaign Category:Spiro Agnew Category:George H. W. Bush Category:Ronald Reagan Category:Nelson Rockefeller