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McLean County
Illinois

McLean County Political Parties

Democratic Party chairs in McLean County (incomplete!): Phil C. Auth, as of 1950

Republican Party chairs in McLean County (incomplete!): A. P. Schantz, as of 1950 — Mike O'Grady, as of 2002


McLean County Delegates
to National Party Conventions

Democratic National Conventions:
   1860, Charleston and Baltimore: Allen Withers
   1876, St. Louis: James S. Ewing
   1888, St. Louis: James S. Ewing
   1892, Chicago: James S. Ewing
   1912, Baltimore: William Buckles — Edward T. Fahey — F. M. Hall
   1916, St. Louis: Louis FitzHenry — John J. Pitts
   1920, San Francisco: Edward E. Donnelly — Lewis G. Stevenson
   1924, New York: Martin A. Brennan — Jacob Martens
   1928, Houston: John A. Moore — Lewis G. Stevenson
   1932, Chicago: Edward T. Fahey
   1936, Philadelphia: John A. Moore
   1940, Chicago: Hugh Darling — Clifford Mears
   1944, Chicago: Phil C. Auth — Will F. Costigan
   1952, Chicago: Will F. Costigan, Jr.
   1960, Los Angeles: J. W. 'Bill' Scott — L. C. Sieberns
   1964, Atlantic City: Donald M. Laughlin — J. W. 'Bill' Scott — Mary White
   1972, Miami Beach: Thomas E. Comfort — Myron E. Heineke — Timothy R. Ives — William T. Larkin — David J. Phillips — William A. Sharp
   1980, New York: Charles L. Blankenship
   1996, Chicago: Luellen Laurenti
   2004, Boston: Leigh Anne Dorris
   2008, Denver: Mike Matejka — Kathy Terven
Republican National Conventions:
   1860, Chicago: David Davis
   1880, Chicago: W. E. Gapen
   1884, Chicago: Joseph W. Fifer — C. S. Smith
   1888, Chicago: Benjamin F. Funk
   1896, St. Louis: Joseph W. Fifer
   1904, Chicago: Arthur J. Scrogin
   1920, Chicago: Frank H. Funk
   1924, Cleveland: William R. Bach
   1932, Chicago: Mrs. E. W. Forman
   1936, Cleveland: Homer W. Hall
   1940, Philadelphia: Clara G. Mott
   1944, Chicago: George J. Mecherle — Dewey Montgomery
   1948, Philadelphia: George J. Mecherle
   1952, Chicago: Grover C. Helm
   1956, San Francisco: James C. Wollrab
   1960, Chicago: James R. DePew
   1964, San Francisco: William D. Braid
   1968, Miami Beach: Roger Joslin
   1972, Miami Beach: Harber H. Hall
   2008, St. Paul: Dan Brady — Connie Nord — William Shepherd — Barbara Urbrich — Gerry Wahlheim
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