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Eaton County
Michigan

Eaton County Political Parties

Democratic Party chairs in Eaton County (incomplete!): Dwight Backus, as of 1913 — Rosemary DiPonio, as of 2003-07

Republican Party chairs in Eaton County (incomplete!): Rice C. Fowler, as of 1950 — Dean B. Doty, 1956-60 — Tim Tarry, as of 2007


Eaton County Delegates
to National Party Conventions

Democratic National Conventions:
   1856, Cincinnati: Chester C. Chatfield
   1880, Cincinnati: D. B. Greene
   1912, Baltimore: M. E. Miller
   1916, St. Louis: Isaiah Boatman
   1920, San Francisco: Samuel Weaver
   1924, New York: John Hall
   1928, Houston: Rosslyn L. Sowers
   1936, Philadelphia: John B. Strange
   1940, Chicago: Floyd Fowler
   1944, Chicago: John B. Strange
   1956, Chicago: Orville E. Latchaw
   1960, Los Angeles: Orville E. Latchaw
   1964, Atlantic City: Floyd Hydon — Frank J. Kelley — Mrs. Jody Perkins
   1968, Chicago: Frank J. Kelley — Alfred Miller
   1972, Miami Beach: Odean V. Bradley — Dora Digby — William Marshall — Rose Thornton
   1976, New York: Rosemary DiPonio — Frank J. Kelley — William Marshall
   1980, New York: Rosemary DiPonio — Arlene Felzke — William Marshall
   1984, San Francisco: Odean V. Bradley — Rosemary DiPonio
   1992, New York: Glenn Freeman
   1996, Chicago: Rosemary DiPonio — Glenn Freeman
   2000, Los Angeles: Rosemary DiPonio
   2004, Boston: Rosemary DiPonio — Kenneth Fletcher
   2008, Denver: Joan G. Bowman
Republican National Conventions:
   1872, Philadelphia: Edward S. Lacey
   1876, Cincinnati: Edward S. Lacey
   1880, Chicago: L. C. Taylor
   1888, Chicago: D. Hawkins
   1896, St. Louis: Hamilton King
   1908, Chicago: Bert W. Kennedy
   1912, Chicago: John C. Potter
   1924, Cleveland: Frank D. Fitzgerald
   1932, Chicago: Hazel DeFoe — Frank D. Fitzgerald
   1936, Cleveland: Murl H. DeFoe — Frank D. Fitzgerald
   1940, Philadelphia: Luren D. Dickinson
   1948, Philadelphia: Rice C. Fowler
   1952, Chicago: Rice C. Fowler
   1956, San Francisco: Dorothy Borg
   1960, Chicago: Dean B. Doty
   1964, San Francisco: Mrs. William Powers
   1968, Miami Beach: David Hicks — Elly M. Peterson
   1984, Dallas: Jackie McGregor — Richard Milliman — Steve Stohl
   1988, New Orleans: Rose DeLoof — Richard Simonson
   1992, Houston: Irene Bagby
   2004, New York: Victor Diaz
   2008, St. Paul: Coy Morton
   2012, Tampa: Barbara Rogers
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