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Cass County
Illinois

Cass County Political Parties

Democratic Party chairs in Cass County (incomplete!): Frank H. Trussell, as of 1950

Republican Party chairs in Cass County (incomplete!): D. E. Wilson, as of 1950 — Robert Booth, as of 2002


Cass County Delegates
to National Party Conventions

Democratic National Conventions:
   1916, St. Louis: John Schultz
   1920, San Francisco: John Schultz
   1924, New York: Theodore J. Schweer
   1928, Houston: Allen T. Lucas
   1932, Chicago: Will E. Burns — Robert H. Garm
   1936, Philadelphia: William H. Dieterich — George F. Kuhlman
   1940, Chicago: William H. Dieterich
   1944, Chicago: C. R. Ratcliffe
   1948, Philadelphia: Leo Fitzgerald
   1956, Chicago: Frank H. Trussell
   1960, Los Angeles: Fred W. Reither
   1964, Atlantic City: Joyce Blume — Leo Fitzgerald
   2004, Boston: Rena Welch
Republican National Conventions:
   1888, Chicago: Richard Mills
   1896, St. Louis: Thomas Conlyt
   1908, Chicago: H. S. Savage
   1912, Chicago: J. A. Glenn
   1916, Chicago: Ivory G. Blair
   1932, Chicago: Floyd M. Condit
   1952, Chicago: John H. Glenn
   1960, Chicago: Francis H. Gillen
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