TILDEN AND HENDRICKS FIRST DAY AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
A lengthy roll call lists delegates by state and key figures incliding Walker Mangrem Hagar and Gray with resolutions debated. A leading platform opposes national debt growth and supports public faith while backing currency stability and trade laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On
Alabame
Levi P Walker
Arkansas
LV Mangrem
California
John S Hagar
Colorado
John F Marshal
Connecticut
R D Hubbard
Delaware
George Gray
Florida
John Westcott
Georgia
C P Howell
Mlinois
John A McClernand
Indiana
D W Voorhee
Iowa
H H Trimbell
Kansas
Theodore L Davis
Kentucky
Alvin Duvall
Louisiana
R N Neamn
Maine
R Hastings
Maryland
George Freaner
Massachusetts
Edward Avery
Michigan
William Bancroft
Minnesota
David Backa
Mississippi
A M Clayton
Missouri
Republic
Finch
Territories
District of Columbia
Committee On Credentials
Democratic Party of the
United States
Democratic Party
High Seas
America
Congress
Atlantic
Pacific Coast
Thun
House of Representatives
Rodebery
the Treasury
Tilden Hendricks Nomination Dominates Democratic Convention
The long St Louis gathering wrestled over rules and platform as delegates debated resuming the ballot. After tumult over hard and soft money, Hendricks won the vice presidential nomination, with Tilden receiving strong New York backing for the presidential bid amid calls for reform and unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClernand
Father Brady
St. Louis
Campbell
Aureuillo
Young
Georgia
House of Representatives
Committee On Platform
Cox
New York
Villas
Wisconsin
Workingmen
Robertson
Sedalia
Tilden
Hendricks
Cincinnati
Jackson
Miss
Mt. Vernon
Indiana
Illinois
McDonald
Woodson
Missouri
Miesouri
Cheera
Wallace
Pennsylvania
Steadman
Ohio
Henry B. Pavor
Hardin
Brown
Tennessee
Abbott
New Jersey
Williams
Kelly
Hanna
Miller
Nebraska
Samuel J. Tilden as Democratic presidential figure and rise
This sketch outlines Samuel J. Tilden born 1814 in New Lebanon New York his noble lineage with English and colonial ties his early education Yale and New York University law career and rise in New York politics. It covers his writing of a defense of Van Buren era policies his legal triumphs in cases Flagg Cunningham and the Delaware and Hudson suit and his pivotal role in railway and canal corporate reorganizations shaping mid 19th century finance law and politics.
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National Committee
Alabama
Walter L. Bragg
Arkansas
John J. Sumpter
California
Frank McCappin
Colorado
Bell A. Hughes
St. Loui
Brown
Tennessee
George H. Rogers
Adair Wilson
Nebraska
G. B. Scofield
Nevada
R. P. Keating
New York
Henry C. Murphy
Webber
Michigan
Taylor
Leavenworth
Yeas
Naya
McClernand
Samuel J. Tilden
Gov
Tilden
New Lebanon
Columbia
Napoleon
Nathaniel Tilden
Tenterden
Kent
England
John
Scituate
Massachusetts
Joseph
London
Hannah Bourne
Gov. Winslow
Bradford
Gov. Tilden
John Tilden
Columbia County
William Jones
New Haven
Connecticut
John Jones
Charles I
Oliver Cromwell
John Hampden
van Buren
Gen. Jackson
Martin van Buren
United States
Wm. L. Marcy
Samuel
Lebanon Springa
Albany Argus
Evening Journal
Congress
Crino
Nathaniel P. Talmadge
Talmadge
Gilbert
Webster
Nicholas Biddle
Mr. Tilden
Democratic Party
United States Bank
Pine Street
City of
James K. Polk
Silas Wright
John L. O'Sullivan
The
Daily News
Assembly
Wright
President Polk
Azariah C. Flagg
Flagg
Giles
Flage
Supreme Court
Emott
Comptroller
Burdell-Cunningham
Cunningham
Dr. Burdell
Bardell
Burdell
Augusta
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Canal Company
Hogeboom
Blagg
Wilden
Cumberland Coal Company
Maryland
Ohio
Hudson
Missouri
Hia
New York and Erie Railway
Jackson
Marcy
Apas
Bee
Dean Richmond
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tilden and Hendricks
Committee On Permanent Organization
John A. McClernand
Mr. Prince
Boston
Able
Committee On Organization
Hon. Lian
W. Voorhees
Thomas Babcock
Virginia
Manton Marble
McClernan
Mr. Williams
August Belmont
Belmont
Republican Party
Liberal Party
Voorhees
S.S. Cox
Sperking
Gov. Tilder
Biasen
Jacobs
McLane
Committee On Resolutions
Mr. Meredith
Committee
Kernan
Pryor
Dixie
Doolittle
South
Senate
Stockton
Haven
Wheeler
Breckenridge
Grant
Meredith
Dorshiemer
Navy
Dorsheimer
Ewing
Eaton
Woothves
Doreheimer
Watterson
Abbot
Dolittle
Texas
Burch
Jegerdemain
West Virginia
Aves
Virgins
Brooklyn
McLeane
Whittlesey
T. Francis Bayard
T. A. Hendricks
Fuller
John Kelley
Kelley
Hutchina
Kansan
Vipers
Calla
Flourney
Herndon
Wm. Allen
Clymer
Winfield Hancock
Gen. Brent
Hancock
Sexton
Smith
Prudence
Missiouri
Sevrnebanenees
Parsker
Parker
Tllinois
North Carolina
Mona
Tadinca
Smalley
Vermont
McMichael
Bell
Reading
Riley
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