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Branch County
Michigan

Branch County Political Parties

Democratic Party chairs in Branch County (incomplete!): Mary Kinnee, as of 2003 — Jerry Fair, as of 2007

Republican Party chairs in Branch County (incomplete!): Alfred G. Morency, as of 1950 — Ken Delaney, as of 2007


Branch County Delegates
to National Party Conventions

Democratic National Conventions:
   1860, Charleston and Baltimore: John G. Parkhurst
   1880, Cincinnati: B. H. Kenyon
   1888, St. Louis: John G. Parkhurst
   1912, Baltimore: Ernest F. Gamble
   1916, St. Louis: Ernest F. Gamble
   1920, San Francisco: Charles U. Champion
   1928, Houston: E. R. Gamble
   1932, Chicago: Charles U. Champion
   1944, Chicago: Hazel Ely
   1952, Chicago: Arthur G. Lyon
   1956, Chicago: Frank E. Lucas
   1964, Atlantic City: Thomas Flynn
   1968, Chicago: Paul Porter
   1980, New York: Paul Porter
Republican National Conventions:
   1856, Philadelphia: George A. Coe
   1872, Philadelphia: D. R. Cooley
   1880, Chicago: Caleb D. Randall
   1888, Chicago: William A. Coombs
   1892, Minneapolis: Charles L. Truesdell
   1896, St. Louis: Albert A. Dorrance
   1900, Philadelphia: Albert A. Dorrance
   1904, Chicago: L. M. Wing
   1908, Chicago: Henry C. Loveridge
   1912, Chicago: William B. Hatch
   1916, Chicago: Daniel Warner
   1920, Chicago: Benjamin B. Gorman
   1924, Cleveland: W. Glenn Cowell
   1928, Kansas City: Benjamin B. Gorman
   1936, Cleveland: John N. Hardy
   1940, Philadelphia: Alfred G. Morency
   1944, Chicago: Edith Phelps
   1948, Philadelphia: Alfred G. Morency
   1952, Chicago: Leland E. Wheeler
   1956, San Francisco: Leland E. Wheeler
   1964, San Francisco: Howard M. Teeter
   1968, Miami Beach: Vivienne Ward
   1984, Dallas: Mary Smith
   1992, Houston: Ann Davis
   2000, Philadelphia: Harry Fallon — Donald Shemel
   2012, Tampa: Barbara Brady
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