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From March 8 to June 7, 1960, voters and members of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1960 Democratic National Convention through a series of caucuses, conventions, and primaries, partly for the purpose of nominating a candidate for President of the United States in the 1960 election.
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts John F. Kennedy, facing no formidable opposition in New Hampshire, won the primary in a landslide over Paul C. Fisher, a scientist best known for inventing the Zero Gravity Pen. [1] [2] [3] Kennedy would go on to win the Democratic party's nomination, as well as the presidency in the general election.
The 1972 primaries set the record for the highest number of candidates in a major party's presidential primaries in American history, with 16. After the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969, Ted Kennedy fell from front runner to non-candidate.
The Democratic Party has existed since the dissolution of the Democratic-Republican Party in the 1820s, and the Democrats have nominated a candidate for president in every presidential election since the party's first convention in 1832. The list is divided into two sections, reflecting the increasing importance of primaries and caucuses ...
District of Columbia Democratic Presidential Primary Results – 1960 [2] Party Candidate Votes Percentage Democratic: Hubert Humphrey: 8,239: 57.4%: Democratic: Wayne Morse: 6,127 42.6% Totals: 14,366: 100.00%
The Democratic platform in 1960 was the longest yet. [8] They called for a loosening of tight economic policy: "We Democrats believe that the economy can and must grow at an average rate of 5 percent annually, almost twice as fast as our annual rate since 1953...As the first step in speeding economic growth, a Democratic president will put an end to the present high-interest-rate, tight-money ...
1960 Democratic Party presidential primaries; P. Primary (film) This page was last edited on 7 August 2020, at 08:42 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
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