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McHenry County
Illinois

McHenry County Political Parties

Democratic Party chairs in McHenry County (incomplete!): Donald Desmond, as of 1950

Republican Party chairs in McHenry County (incomplete!): Henry L. Cowlin, as of 1950 — William Lefew, as of 2002


McHenry County Delegates
to National Party Conventions

Democratic National Conventions:
   1860, Charleston and Baltimore: William M. Jackson
   1912, Baltimore: John C. Donnelly
   1916, St. Louis: John C. Donnelly
   1924, New York: John L. McCabe
   1928, Houston: John R. McCabe
   1936, Philadelphia: Walter Kelley
   1944, Chicago: Thomas P. Higgins
   1948, Philadelphia: Thomas P. Higgins — John Murphy
   1952, Chicago: Gladys Bower
   1956, Chicago: William J. Bolger — Thomas P. Higgins
   1960, Los Angeles: William J. Bolger — William Patrick Gearty
   1964, Atlantic City: William J. Bolger
   1972, Miami Beach: William J. Bolger — Thomas J. Hanahan — Barbara H. Simpson — Richard R. Zukowski
   1980, New York: Elyse Kovac Roberts — Lorens P. Tronet
   2004, Boston: Kathleen Bergan Schmidt
   2008, Denver: Jack Franks
Republican National Conventions:
   1868, Chicago: Merritt L. Joslyn
   1880, Chicago: Lot B. Smith
   1888, Chicago: G. W. Eldredge
   1896, St. Louis: H. D. Crum
   1904, Chicago: W. E. Hall
   1908, Chicago: A. A. Crissey
   1912, Chicago: B. C. Getzelman
   1916, Chicago: Michael F. Walsh
   1920, Chicago: William E. Wire
   1924, Cleveland: George E. Sullivan
   1928, Kansas City: Michael F. Walsh
   1932, Chicago: Charles F. Renich — Edward D. Shurtleff
   1936, Cleveland: Frank J. Green
   1940, Philadelphia: T. Merle Paul
   1944, Chicago: David R. Joslyn
   1948, Philadelphia: Henry L. Cowlin
   1952, Chicago: Henry L. Cowlin — Vernon W. Kays
   1960, Chicago: David R. Joslyn
   1964, San Francisco: Theodore Wickman
   1968, Miami Beach: Bernard V. Narusis
   1972, Miami Beach: Roland A. Herrman
   2004, New York: Rick Mack — Gilbert Ruiz
   2008, St. Paul: William Henniger — John McCrory — Nina Stephenson
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