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Dutchess County
New York

Dutchess County Political Parties

Democratic Party chairs in Dutchess County (incomplete!): Edward E. Perkins, as of 1910 — Samuel Lesher, as of 1927 — Philip A. Mylod, as of 1932 — James Townsend, as of 1936-39 — James A. Benson, as of 1940-42 — Joseph F. Hawkins, as of 1955 — George E. Whalen, as of 1965

Republican Party chairs in Dutchess County (incomplete!): John A. Hanna, as of 1910 — J. Griswold Webb, as of 1927-29 — Frederic H. Bontecou, as of 1932-42 — James T. Aspbury, as of 1955


Dutchess County Delegates
to National Party Conventions

Democratic National Conventions:
   1860, Charleston and Baltimore: Henry Staats
   1864, Chicago: William Chamberlain
   1876, St. Louis: James Mackin
   1912, Baltimore: Ferdinand A. Hoyt — Edward E. Perkins
   1916, St. Louis: Edward E. Perkins — John K. Sague
   1920, San Francisco: Franklin D. Roosevelt
   1924, New York: Margaret Mack — Franklin D. Roosevelt
   1928, Houston: Margaret Mack — Elinor F. Morgenthau — Henry Morgenthau, Jr. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
   1932, Chicago: Marion Dickerman — Thomas M. Lynch — Henry Morgenthau, Jr. — Anna Vincent
   1936, Philadelphia: Mary W. Conger — Marion Dickerman — George V. L. Spratt
   1940, Chicago: Marion Dickerman — John E. Mack — Elmer Van Wagner
   1944, Chicago: James V. Forrestal — John E. Mack — Elmer Van Wagner
   1948, Philadelphia: Vincent D. Gleason
   1952, Chicago: Alexander Hamilton
   1956, Chicago: Joseph F. Hawkins
   1960, Los Angeles: Joseph F. Hawkins — Albert L. Hecht — Gore Vidal
   1964, Atlantic City: Nina Blanchfield — Albert L. Hecht
   1972, Miami Beach: Clarence Johnson — Daniel E. O'Keefe — George E. Whalen
   1980, New York: Pauline Egan — Frederica Goodman — Frances A. Knapp — Michael Murphy — Jeanne Selmer — William Smalley
   1984, San Francisco: Lucille P. Pattison
   1988, Atlanta: Judith C. Bleakley — Richard A. Collins — Carmen M. McGill — Lucille P. Pattison — Richard E. Pelkey
   1992, New York: Richard A. Collins
   1996, Chicago: Geraldine M. DeAngelo
   2004, Boston: Jean P. Bordewich — Michael Kasper
   2008, Denver: Moneesh K. Bakshi — Cynthia J. Glozier — John J. Hall — Eleanor Thompson
Republican National Conventions:
   1856, Philadelphia: Augustus L. Allen — D. C. Marshall
   1860, Chicago: Albert Van Kleeck
   1868, Chicago: Harvey G. Eastman
   1872, Philadelphia: B. Platt Carpenter — Lemuel Sisson
   1876, Cincinnati: John H. Ketcham
   1884, Chicago: B. Platt Carpenter — Willard H. Mase
   1892, Minneapolis: Willard H. Mase — Lewis H. Vail
   1896, St. Louis: John H. Ketcham — L. W. Vail
   1900, Philadelphia: Robert H. Hunter
   1904, Chicago: George M. Hine — Samuel K. Phillips
   1908, Chicago: George Esselstyn — Robert H. Hunter
   1912, Chicago: George Overocker — Samuel K. Phillips
   1916, Chicago: Willet E. Hoysradt — E. Darwin Morse
   1920, Chicago: Daniel J. Gleason — George Overocker
   1924, Cleveland: Daniel J. Gleason — Helen Huntington Astor
   1928, Kansas City: Daniel J. Gleason
   1932, Chicago: Frederic H. Bontecou — Daniel J. Gleason
   1936, Cleveland: Frederic H. Bontecou — Daniel J. Gleason
   1940, Philadelphia: Daniel J. Gleason
   1944, Chicago: Frederic H. Bontecou
   1952, Chicago: Frederic H. Bontecou
   1956, San Francisco: Frederic H. Bontecou — Alger B. Chapman — Oakleigh Thorne, Sr.
   1960, Chicago: James T. Aspbury
   1964, San Francisco: Roy C. Ketcham
   1972, Miami Beach: Ethel L. Block — Richard J. Brady
   1984, Dallas: Hamilton Fish, Jr.
   2004, New York: Elizabeth Brilliant
   2008, St. Paul: Wayne Baden — Allen E. Rappleyea
 
Whig National Conventions:
   1839, Harrisburg: Peter R. Livingston
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