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Hammond for VP Nods from the West and East
John Hays Hammond, famed mining engineer and Guggenheim veteran, announces his bid for the Republican nomination for vice president at the Chicago convention. He rose from oil and mineral ventures to politics, inspired by Western and Eastern backing, with talks of a future presidential run.
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