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Elkhart County
Indiana

Elkhart County Political Parties

Democratic Party chairs in Elkhart County: [none currently in database]

Republican Party chairs in Elkhart County (incomplete!): D. W. Neidig, as of 1905 — G. Hal Manahan, 1942-44 — Dale Stickel, as of 2011


Elkhart County Delegates
to National Party Conventions

Democratic National Conventions:
   1860, Charleston and Baltimore: Robert Lowry
   1864, Chicago: Charles W. Seeley
   1912, Baltimore: S. F. Spohn
   1924, New York: Samuel S. Spohn
   1932, Chicago: Clell Firestone — Robert E. Proctor
   1944, Chicago: John McLean
   1948, Philadelphia: John McLean
   1952, Chicago: Richard B. Corns
   1956, Chicago: Harry S. Eby
   1964, Atlantic City: Richard Bosse — Phil Byron — Ruth Lloyd — David V. Smith
   1968, Chicago: Richard Bosse — Harry S. Eby — Austin Gildea
   1972, Miami Beach: Robert Price
   1996, Chicago: Cora Breckenridge — James P. Perron
   2004, Boston: Rod Roberson
   2008, Denver: Arvis Dawson
Republican National Conventions:
   1896, St. Louis: J. H. Heatwole
   1916, Chicago: Louis W. Vail
   1920, Chicago: I. C. Wood
   1924, Cleveland: Louis W. Vail
   1928, Kansas City: A. H. Beardsley
   1932, Chicago: A. E. Beardsley — I. W. Wood
   1936, Cleveland: A. H. Beardsley
   1940, Philadelphia: Walter R. Beardsley — Gordon Pease
   1944, Chicago: LeRoy E. Yoder
   1948, Philadelphia: Walter R. Beardsley — Sam Stalter
   1952, Chicago: Walter R. Beardsley — Waldo T. Stalter
   1956, San Francisco: Walter R. Beardsley
   1960, Chicago: Walter R. Beardsley — Ferne B. Slagle
   1972, Miami Beach: Walter R. Beardsley
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