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Index of Politicians by Party Office Held

National Party Officers:

• Chairman
• Vice-Chair
• Secretary
• Treasurer
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National Party Conventions:

• 1832: Baltimore, Md.
• 1835: Baltimore, Md.
• 1840: Baltimore, Md.
• 1844: Baltimore, Md.
• 1848: Baltimore, Md.
• 1852: Baltimore, Md.
• 1856: Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1860: Charleston, S.C. and Baltimore, Md.
• 1864: Chicago, Ill.
• 1868: New York, N.Y.
• 1872: Baltimore, Md.
• 1876: St. Louis, Mo.
• 1880: Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1884: Chicago, Ill.
• 1888: St. Louis, Mo.
• 1892: Chicago, Ill.
• 1896: Chicago, Ill.
• 1900: Kansas City, Mo.
• 1904: St. Louis, Mo.
• 1908: Denver, Colo.
• 1912: Baltimore, Md.
• 1916: St. Louis, Mo.
• 1920: San Francisco, Calif.
• 1924: New York, N.Y.
• 1928: Houston, Tex.
• 1932: Chicago, Ill.
• 1936: Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1940: Chicago, Ill.
• 1944: Chicago, Ill.
• 1948: Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1952: Chicago, Ill.
• 1956: Chicago, Ill.
• 1960: Los Angeles, Calif.
• 1964: Atlantic City, N.J.
• 1968: Chicago, Ill.
• 1972: Miami Beach, Fla.
• 1976: New York, N.Y.
• 1980: New York, N.Y.
• 1984: San Francisco, Calif.
• 1988: Atlanta, Ga.
• 1992: New York, N.Y.
• 1996: Chicago, Ill.
• 2000: Los Angeles, Calif.
• 2004: Boston, Mass.
• 2008: Denver, Colo.

Chairmen of Democratic National Committee, 1852-2008 (may be incomplete)

Robert Milligan McLane 1852-54 David Allen Smalley 1856-60 August Belmont 1860-68 Augustus Schell 1872-76 Abram S. Hewitt 1876 William H. Barnum 1880-88 Calvin S. Brice 1889-92 William F. Harrity 1892 James K. Jones 1896-1900 Thomas Taggart 1904-08 Norman E. Mack 1908-12 Homer S. Cummings 1919-20 George White 1920-21 Cordell Hull 1921-24 Clem L. Shaver 1925 John J. Raskob 1929 Clem L. Shaver 1930 John J. Raskob 1931-32 James A. Farley 1932-40 Edward J. Flynn 1940-43 Frank C. Walker 1943-44 Robert E. Hannegan 1944-47 J. Howard McGrath 1947-49 William M. Boyle, Jr. 1949-51 Frank E. McKinney 1951-52 Stephen A. Mitchell 1952-54 Paul M. Butler 1955-60 Henry M. Jackson 1960-61 John M. Bailey 1961-68 Lawrence F. O'Brien 1968-69 Fred R. Harris 1969-70 Lawrence F. O'Brien 1970-72 Jean Westwood 1972 Robert S. Strauss 1972-77 Kenneth M. Curtis 1977 John C. White 1977-81 Charles Manatt 1981-85 Paul G. Kirk, Jr. 1985-89 Ronald H. Brown 1989-93 David Wilhelm 1993-94 Debra DeLee 1994-95 Christopher J. Dodd 1995-96 Donald L. Fowler 1996 Steven Grossman 1996-99 Roy R. Romer 1997 Joseph Andrew 1999-2001 Terry McAuliffe 2001- Howard Dean 2005- Vice-Chair of Democratic National Committee, 1913-2010 (may be incomplete)

Homer S. Cummings 1913-19 Harry F. Byrd 1929 Florence G. Farley 1929 Scott Ferris 1929 Frank Hague 1929 Nellie Tayloe Ross 1929 Joseph E. Davies 1936 Oscar R. Ewing 1943-45 Ambrose O'Connell 1943-44 India Edwards 1950-56 William L. Dawson 1954 Hale Boggs 1957 Margaret Price 1964 Margaret Price 1964 Geri M. Joseph 1969 Polly B. Baca 1981-89 Alexis Herman 1988-91 Lottie H. Shackelford 1989 Linda Chavez-Thompson 1997-2005 Mike Honda 2008 Lottie H. Shackelford 2008 Susan W. Turnbull 2008 Raymond C. Buckley 2010 Secretary of Democratic National Committee, 1904-2008 (may be incomplete)

Urey Woodson 1904-12 Charles A. Greathouse 1929 George E. Allen 1943 Dorothy V. Bush 1944-62 Dorothy V. Bush 1962-89 Alice Travis Germond 2008 Treasurer of Democratic National Committee, 1898-2008 (may be incomplete)

James L. Norris 1898-1900 Millard F. Dunlap 1900 James W. Gerard 1929-32 Frank C. Walker 1932-33 Walter J. Cummings 1934-36 Oliver A. Quayle, Jr. 1937-41 Joe L. Blythe 1948-49 Matthew H. McCloskey, Jr. 1954 Richard Maguire 1964 Patrick O'Connor 1969 Paul G. Kirk, Jr. 1983-85 Sharon Pratt Kelly 1985-89 Andrew Tobias 2008 Arrangements Committee, 1964-84 (may be incomplete)

Richard Maguire 1964 Sheldon Andelson 1984 Harriet C. Babbitt 1984 Joan Baggett 1984 Porter L. Bankhead 1984 William Belk 1984 Arlene Berlin 1984 Henry Berman 1984 Elizabeth Bogosian 1984 Arrangements Committee, 1984 (may be incomplete)

Charles Curry 1984 -, 1948-96 (may be incomplete)

William R. Arnold 1948 India Edwards 1948 Lucy Munroe 1948 Frances Perkins 1948 Phil Regan 1948 Richard Tucker 1948 William Belk 1984 Cicely Tyson 1984 Barry Commoner 1988 Billy Graham 1988 Eleanor Smeal 1988 Jesse Brown 1996 Evelyn Pat Foote 1996

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