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Convention Ends In Nominating Fight For Seventh District
In Harrisonburg delegates battle for the Seventh District Democratic nomination. Robertson and Early trade ballots through many rounds, with Parker and Wray reentering as needed, before Robertson surpasses Early and Peyton exits on the final count.
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Robertson
National
Ventions
Fifty States
Evry
Early
Stuartset
Frank Wray
Clarke
Seventh District
Lawrence Peyton
Staunton
C. B. Hanger
Amherst
Col
Carroll Menefee
Rappahannock
Ward Swank
Harrisonburg
Swank
Ramey
Virginia
Democratic Party
Carson
Union
Republic
National Democratic
South
Seventh
Congress
Congress of the
United States
Moffett
Stephen Timberlake
Credentials Committee
Stuart Moffett
Augusta
House of Delegates
Hanger
Col. Menefee
Maj. A. Willis Robertson
Chicago
I. P Whitehead
Frank M. Wray
John 8. Battle
Albemarle
N. B Early
W. E. Saunders
Aubrey Strode
Greenlee Letcher
Lexington
D. Timberlake
Lawrence W. H. Peyton
W. A. Bradford
Berryville
Aubrey G. Weaver
Warren
M. J. Menefee
Page
Col. J. M. Bauserman
Woodstock
Frank S. Tavenner
Shenandoah
J. O. Stickley
John T. Harris
Rockingham
R. Gray Williams
Winchester
Russell, Cather
Frederick
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John N. Garner
Rac
Cather
Harris
Peyton
Strode
Tavenner
Wray
Menefee
Albemar
Capt. Wray
Menefee Zack
Delgates
Bridgewater Band
Joseph Bauserman
Taverner
Charlottesville