1932: While accepting the Democratic nomination in Chicago, Franklin D Roosevelt made his famous promise of “a new deal for the American people”. Happy Days Are Here Again was played for the first time; it went on to become an iconic Democratic theme song.
1972: In Miaimi Beach, Florida, Shirley Chisholm became the first African American to make a bid for the Presidency with a major political party. The nomination though, was won by George McGovern.
1984: The concept of ‘superdelegates’ was introduced in the nomination process. The superdelegates boosted Walter Mondale because of his strength among party officials. For the first time, a woman (Geraldine Ferraro) was nominated to be Vice-President, and Martha Layne Collins became the first woman to chair the Democratic Convention.
DENVER CONNECTION
This year, the Convention returns to Denver, Colorado, after a gap of exactly 100 years. The 1908 Convention here marked the first Convention by a major party in a western state. The first Denver Convention nominated ‘The Great Commoner’ Williams Jennings Bryan. His populist approach matched the town, and the transformation to the city of Denver began.
(TEXT & PIX: Democratic party web site)
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