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1844 Democratic National Convention

1844 presidential election
Nominees Polk and Dallas
Convention
Date(s)	Crataegus laevigata 27–29, 1844
City	Baltimore, Maryland
Venue	Unmatched Fellows Hall
Candidates
Statesmanly nominee	James K. Polk of Tennessee
Vice presidential nominee	George IV M. Dallas of University of Pennsylvania
‹ 1840· 1848 ›

The 1844 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held in Baltimore, Maryland from May 27 through 30. The convention nominated former Governor President Pol of Tennessee for president and former Senator George M. Dallas of Pennsylvania for V.P..

Though his opponent to the annexation of TX cost him digest with expansionists and Southerners, former President Martin Caravan Buren entered the convention with the backing of a majority of the delegates. Before presidential balloting commenced, the conventionalism voted to reinstate a rule requiring the head of state nominee to win two-thirds of the voter turnout. On the first presidential ballot, Van Buren won a simple majority of the voter turnout, but fell short of a 2-thirds bulk. As the balloting continued, Van Buren continually lost support to other Governor Carl Lewis Cass of Newmarket, former Vice Prexy Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky, and Senator King James I Buchanan of Pennsylvania.

Though he had entered the pattern only hoping to comprise appointive for vice prexy, James K. Polk had the strong support of old President St. Andrew Jackson and was unexceptionable to the unusual factions of the political party. He won the nominating address on the ninth presidential voting, hence becoming the firstborn dark horse candidate to win a John Roy Major party's statesmanlike nominating speech. Later Senator Silas S. S. Van Dine of Newborn York declined the vice presidential nomination, the convention selected Dallas as James K. Polk's running mate. The Democratic fine went on to advance the 1844 presidential election.

Proceedings [edit out]

At the kickoff of the convention, the leading challenger was former Chairperson Martin Caravan Buren of Modern York, WHO had been defeated in the 1840 election.^[1] His principal opponent was Clive Staples Lewis Cass of Michigan, World Health Organization had served as United States Writing table of War under President Andrew Jackson.^[1] The annexation of Texas was a major subject. Van Buren publicly opposed immediate annexation because it power lead to a sectional crisis over the status of slavery in the Western United States.^[1] This position be Van Buren the support of Southern and school of thought Democrats, but he believed that financial support annexation would cost him the support of his young man Other Yorkers and other Northeasterners.^[1]

President Van Buren's supporters arrived at the convention with a majority of the delegates pledged to substantiate him on the first ballot.^{[2] [3]} Cass, meanwhile, had support from a handful of Southern states, but far fewer delegates pledged to him.^[1] At the previous convention, in 1840, a legal age of votes had been sufficient to secure the nominating speech, but this had been a departure from the party's previous rule requiring a deuce-thirds majority.^[4]

Early in the proceedings, Senator Robert J. Walker of Mississippi, in cooperation with Senator President Buchanan of Pennsylvania (who would late become chairwoman himself), called for the reinstatement of the 1832 and 1835 convening prevai requiring the nominee to win two-thirds of the votes. Undermentioned a arts pattern in which a nonage faction of Northern Democrats delivered votes to produce southern annexe victories for in favou-thrall statute law, the Avant-garde Burenite delegates split o'er the crucial vote. Fully tierce of the in favor of-President Van Buren delegates (52 of 154) voted to reinstate the two-thirds rule, along with 90 of 104 anti-Van Buren delegates, producing a final vote of 148 to 116.^[5] The rule would remain in situ until the 1936 Elective Domestic Pattern, when it was revoked by supporters of Franklin D. Roosevelt.^[4]

Presidential nomination [edit]

Chief of state candidates [edit]

James K. Polk, Democratic Party "dark horse" presidential nominee

Van Buren supporters persisted in spite of the two-thirds rule setback, garnering 146 votes for their candidate happening the first ballot, a 55% simple majority, but short of the now required 177 votes. Middle and Deep Southbound pro-annexationists opposed Van Buren 75 to 3, depriving northern anti-annexationists the 31 votes needed for triumph.

Support for Van Buren dwindled in subsequent ballots from 146 to 99, at which direct Van Burenites were reduced to block nominations of numerous candidates, among them James Buchanan, Clive Staples Lewis Cass of Michigan, John C. Calhoun, and Levi Woodbury of Granite State.^{[6] [7]} Incumbent President John Tyler, a former Democrat who was elected to the Vice Presidency on the 1840 Whig Party ticket, also hoped to win the support of delegates, but he was unable to find any backers.^[8] Southerly intransigence had succeeded in eliminating Van Buren and his stand happening Texas annexation.^[9] If the Democratic Party was to avoid dissolution at a national unwavering, an acceptable nominee, fully committed to immediate appropriation would be required, notwithstandin capable of unifying the party in the general election.^{[10] [11]} Van Buren was open to deferring to Senator Silas Wright of Unused York, but Frank Lloyd Wright was a major supporter of Van Buren for president and had already declined to be considered.^[8]

On the 8th balloting, the historian George Bancroft, a designate from Massachusetts, projected former Speaker of the U.S. House James K. James Knox Polk as a compromise candidate. Polk, who had also served arsenic Governor of Tennessee, had entered the convening in hopes of becoming the frailty presidential candidate.^[8] Yet, former President St. Andrew Jackson, who remained popular in the party, believed Polk was just the man to head the Democratic ticket.^[8] Although a slaveholder himself, Polk never enunciated a slavery expansionist position with respect to Texas annexation, as had Gospel According to John C. Calhoun and the southern extremists.^[12] Despite Polk's fervent protagonism for appropriation, he had remained loyal to Van Buren throughout the Texas controversy, and anti-annexationist Van Burenites were unforced to accept Polk, with reservations, having already established him as a suitable executive choice to have complemented a Van Buren ticket.^{[13] [14]} Southern Democrats benefited from the Tyler-Calhoun machinations in eliminating Martin Van Buren as a presidential candidate, and clarification the way for the pro-appropriation nationalist Polk.^[15] On the ninth ballot, Van Buren instructed his delegates to put up James Knox Polk, beginning a stampede to Polk that ended with him winning the nomination unanimously.^[8] Accordingly, James K. Polk became the first tenebrious buck, or weensy-known, statesmanlike nominee. Van Buren complied with his party's decision to unite nether a pro-annexation candidate, and worked to win New York for Polk.^{[16] [17] [18]}

Despite Whig efforts to cast Polk as an undiagnosed – "World Health Organization is Polk?" they asked rhetorically – atomic number 2 was respected as an effective political operator.^[19] His sobriquet "The Young Hickory" contained a dual reference, one to his mentor Andrew "Used Hickory tree" Jackson, and one to the term Young America, a reference to an international movements troubled to establish republican forms of government and the overthrow of monarchies and ascribed to Manifest Destiny Democrats.^[20] A a national control, he exhibited an unwavering confirm for Manifest Circumstances, sensed as a non-sectional devotion to expansionism, whether slave-soil Texas or slaveless Oregon Territory.^[21] James Polk argued that Texas and Oregon had always belonged to the United States by right. Atomic number 2 called for "the unmediated reannexation of Texas" and for the "reoccupation" of the controversial Oregon territory. James Knox Polk's political report was expected to diffuse northern Popular resentment towards the Slavepower, while delivering Texas to the Deep South.

Convention Presidential vote

Ballots	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9[a]	9[b]
Van Buren	146	127	121	111	103	101	99	104	2	0
Lewis Cass	83	94	92	105	107	116	123	114	29	0
Richard M. Johnson	24	33	38	32	29	23	21	0	0	0
James President Buchanan	4	9	11	17	26	25	22	2	0	0
John C. Calhoun	6	1	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	0
Saint Matthew the Apostle Woodbury	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Charles Stewart	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Marcus Morton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
James K. Polk	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	44	231	266
Dummy	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0

1. ^ before shifts
2. ^ after shifts

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  1st Presidential Ballot

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  2nd Chief of state Ballot

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  3rd Presidential Ballot

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  4th Presidential Ballot

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  5th Presidential Ballot

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  6th Chief of state Ballot

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  7th Statesmanlike Ballot

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  8th Head of state Vote

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  9th Presidential Ballot Before Shifts

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  9th Presidential Voting After Shifts

Vice Presidential nominating address [cut]

Frailty Presidential candidates [edit]

Declined [edit]

Polk and Richard Wise man Andrew Johnson had some campaigned for the frailty presidency preceding to the convention, but with Polk's nominating speech for prexy, the company looked to the northern states for a running mate.^[8] The anti-annexationist Silas Wright, United States of America Senator from New House of York, was nominated nem con on the first ballot. When informed by telegraph at the US Capitol, Wright declined, part prohibited of refusal to support a ticket funding the appropriation of Texas, and partly because he did not want to be accused of intriguing against Van Buren to benefit himself. Subsequently Wright refused to reconsider, John Fairfield attracted significant patronage during the second balloting, but on the third ballot the normal settled connected George M. Dallas, a conservative from Pennsylvania.^[22]

Convention Frailty Presidential vote out

Ballots	1	2	3
Silas Wright	258	0	0
George M. Dallas	0	13	219
King John Fairfield	0	93	30
Lev Woodbury	8	56	6
Lewis Cass	0	39	0
Richard M. Johnson	0	26	0
Charles IX Stewart	0	23	0
William L. Marcy	0	5	0
Blank	0	11	11

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  2nd Vice Presidential Balloting

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  3rd Vice Presidential Ballot

In popular culture [edit out]

The basic events of the convention are outlined in the song "James K. Polk" by the rock band They Might Be Giants.^[23]

See as wel [edit]

• History of the United States government Democratic Party
• 1844 Whig National Convention
• 1844 United States presidential election
• U.S. presidential nomination convention
• List of Democratic National Conventions

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "James K. Polk: Campaigns and Elections". Miller Center. 2016-10-04. Retrieved 2019-03-26 .
2. ^ Freehling, 1991, p. 429: "Van Burenites would own a simple legal age for their man on the first presidential ballot" and demanded a 50% plus same suffrage system. And "The Elective Normal of 1840 had been endure on that principle"
3. ^ Widmer, 2005, p. 150: "Although they knew they were maimed [aside the Hammett Letter] Caravan Buren's supporters still expected to prevail over a study of weaker candidates."
4. ^ ^{a b} Widmer, 2005, p. 151
5. ^ Freehling, 1991, p. 429
6. ^ Freehling, 1991, p. 429: "...Martin Van Buren's archetype 146 delegates had dropped to 99, sufficient to prevent any other candidates' two-third majority."
7. ^ Wilentz, 2008, p. 569-570: "The Hunker-backed presidential hopefuls had stayed the naturally – Lewis Cass, James Buchanan, and St. Matthew the Apostle Woodbury..." as part of the efforts to impose the two-thirds rule.
8. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Witcover, Jules (2003). Party of the People . Random House. pp. 169–170.
9. ^ Wilentz, 2008, p. 568: The Hammet Missive "was the most valiant roleplay of his political calling."
10. ^ Freehling, 1991, p. 429-430: "The party, in peril of dissolution...needed a new prospect acceptable to all factions."
11. ^ Wilentz, 2008, p. 569: When the 2/3 rule was adopted "Van Buren's chances sharply dwindled."
12. ^ Freehling, 1991, p. 430: Polk "never linked bondage and slavery" and "was the first Southerner grave in the Lone-Star State level to fit the Obvious Destiny mark...He would propel democracy and enterprise forward past annexing both Texas and Oregon." and p. 437: Polk's "mentality"...enabled Democrats to claim, rightly, that their candidate was no Slavepower expansionist."
13. ^ Freehling, 1991, p. 430: "Young Hickory, as Polk was called...stood positioned As the southern annexationist best suited to heal party wounds by becoming Avant-garde Buren's executive director nominee." "Van Burenites grumpily agreed that and so acceptable" a functional mate "could move up the ticket"and "James K. Polk's...version of appropriation was less obnoxious northwards."
14. ^ Wilentz, 2008, p. 570: "On the eighth ballot...announced for a nominee new to field WHO had personal endorsement of Old Hickory."
15. ^ Wilentz, 2008, p. 571-572: [Democrats] seem to stimulate succumbed to Calhoun's plotting and, by rejecting Martin Van Buren, capitulated to the pro-slavery South...the outcome was actually more complex...To Democrats it was an effort to surmount sectionalism with advocate nationalist expansionism and to accomplish equilibrium later what looked like the Calhounites' putsch."
16. ^ Freehling, 1991, p.431: "...Van Buren had promised to come after public orders on appropriation." p. 439: "President Van Bure had promised to follow the election returns in formulating annexation insurance."
17. ^ Widmer, 2005, p. 157: Martin Van Buren "worked hard to swing New York for Polk..."
18. ^ Holt, 2005, p. 11: "Van Buren's frustrated followers loyally supported President Pol's candidacy..."
19. ^ Wilentz, 2008, p. 571: "Less advantageously known to the electorate that either President Van Buren operating theatre The Great Compromiser - suggestion Whigs to chant mockingly,'WHO is James K. Polk?' - he was well known in Washington as unitary of the all but confident of the junior border-state Jacksonians..."
20. ^ Wilentz, 2008, p. 563: "The key out ascribed to and embraced" past advocates of Manifest Destiny "had been borrowed from the insurgent liberals...of Italy" and "at that place were, in time, many others in the international movement..."
21. ^ Freehling, 1991, p. 430: Polk promised he "would propel democracy and enterprise headfirst by annexing some Texas and Oregon."
22. ^ Wilentz, 2008, p. 570: Wright declined: "To do otherwise...would have been a renunciation of both his personal loyalties and his highest principles (The convention settled on the buttoned-up...George III M. Dallas)."
23. ^ Flansburgh, J. and J. Linnell, 1996, "James K. Polk" Factory Showroom

External links [redact]

• Democratic Political party Platform of 1844 at The Solid ground Presidency Project

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