1892 Republican National Convention


The 1892 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held at the Industrial Exposition Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, from June 7 to June 10, 1892. The party nominated President Benjamin Harrison for re-election on the first ballot and Whitelaw Reid of New York for vice president.
James S. Clarkson of Iowa was the outgoing chairman of the Republican National Committee. J. Sloat Fassett of New York was Temporary Chairman, and Governor William McKinley Jr. of Ohio was the Permanent Chair of the convention.
Harrison's Secretary of State James G. Blaine, who had resigned from the cabinet on June 4, 1892, the eve of the convention, had his name submitted for consideration by the delegates, but drew little support. Future president William McKinley tied Blaine for second place among the delegates.
Although successful in his bid for renomination, President Harrison's performance was underwhelming for an incumbent due in part to the crushing defeat that the party's Congressional candidates had met in the 1890 mid-term elections. He and Reid would lose the fall 1892 election to former President Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson.
The 1892 RNC was also the first convention where women were allowed to be delegates. Therese Alberta Jenkins, delegate from Wyoming, cast the first vote by a woman for president. Wyoming had granted full suffrage for women at statehood in 1890.

Results

Presidential ballot

The Candidates:

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Vice Presidential ballot

Vice President Levi Morton was dumped from the ticket, as Harrison was not particularly fond of Morton and Morton was closer to Blaine supporters. Morton was replaced by Ohioan and Ambassador, Whitelaw Reid. This was also the first and so far only time in U.S. Political History where the presidential and vice presidential nominees were both graduates from the same university. Harrison and Reid were graduates of Miami University located in Oxford, Ohio

Republican Party Platform

The Republican platform supported high tariffs, bimetallism, stiffer immigration laws, free rural mail delivery, and a canal across Central America. It also expressed sympathy for the Irish Home Rule Movement and the plight of Jews under persecution in czarist Russia.

SOUTHERN OUTRAGES

FOREIGN RELATIONS

MISCELLANEOUS

NICARAGUA CANAL

TERRITORIES

ARID LANDS

THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION

INTEMPERANCE

PENSIONS

HARRISON'S ADMINISTRATION