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Cole County
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Cole County Political Parties

Democratic Party chairs in Cole County (incomplete!): T. B. Mahan, as of 1903 — W. A. Curtis, as of 1921 — James T. Blair, Jr., as of 1939 — Ed J. Arnett, as of 1943 — Charles H. Buchanan, as of 1945 — Roy E. Sibley, as of 1949 — Roy E. Sibley, as of 1963 — Richard R. Nacy, as of 1967

Republican Party chairs in Cole County (incomplete!): Scott Peters, as of 1928 — Julius Heisinger, as of 1949


Cole County Delegates
to National Party Conventions

Democratic National Conventions:
   1860, Charleston and Baltimore: C. G. Corwin
   1904, St. Louis: Henry F. Sarman — William J. Stone
   1912, Baltimore: W. W. Graves — William J. Stone
   1924, New York: W. R. Hollister
   1928, Houston: Charles Mace
   1936, Philadelphia: James T. Blair, Jr.
   1940, Chicago: Richard R. Nacy
   1944, Chicago: Howard Cook
   1948, Philadelphia: James A. Davis
   1952, Chicago: James A. Davis — Richard R. Nacy — John F. Spalding
   1956, Chicago: Richard R. Nacy
   1960, Los Angeles: James T. Blair, Jr. — Sam B. Cook — James A. Davis
   1996, Chicago: Eugene Bushmann — Donna Mueller
   2004, Boston: Luana Gifford — Joe Maxwell — Maurice Schulte
   2008, Denver: Ken Hussey — Leila Medley — Susan Montee — John Temporiti
Republican National Conventions:
   1860, Chicago: B. Bruns — James B. Gardenhire
   1908, Chicago: Julius H. Conrath
   1912, Chicago: J. T. Caston — Jesse A. Tolerton
   1916, Chicago: David W. Peters
   1920, Chicago: Mrs. William C. Irwin — George Wagner
   1924, Cleveland: C. G. Williams
   1928, Kansas City: Sam Aaron Baker — C. G. Williams
   1932, Chicago: C. G. Williams
   1936, Cleveland: Frank Ely Atwood — Duke Diggs
   1940, Philadelphia: John Henry Taylor
   1948, Philadelphia: Laura Small
   1960, Chicago: Charles Robinson
   1964, San Francisco: Estelle Bockhorst
   1968, Miami Beach: Estelle Bockhorst
   1972, Miami Beach: James R. Blosser
   1988, New Orleans: Michael Gunning
   2008, St. Paul: Andy Blunt — Marilynn Bradford — Ron Fitzwater
   2012, Tampa: Susie Barrett — Ron Fitzwater — Harry Otto — Kathy Peerson — Eric Struemph — Patricia Thomas
   2016, Cleveland: Ron Fitzwater — Michael Kehoe — Susan Klein — Douglas Thomas — Patricia Thomas
 
Whig National Conventions:
   1839, Harrisburg: Uriel Wright
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