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Mercer County
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Mercer County Political Parties

Democratic Party chairs in Mercer County (incomplete!): A. E. Bivins, as of 1917 — O. M. Dyerie, as of 1928-29 — Walter V. Ross, 1929-32 — G. H. Crumpecker, as of 1940 — Perry L. Dye, as of 1941-42 — Merriman S. Smith, as of 1945-46 — Howard M. Jarrett, as of 1949-55 — A. Clyde White, as of 1961-63 — Norris Kantor, as of 1969-70 — Paige Wooldridge, as of 1975 — E. R. Simons, as of 1983

Republican Party chairs in Mercer County (incomplete!): John C. Pack, as of 1917 — Fred M. Hawley, as of 1940-42 — Robert T. Peters, as of 1945-49 — Cyrus H. Gadd, as of 1950 — Philip T. Lilly, Jr., as of 1952-54 — Joseph C. Shaffer, Jr., as of 1961 — Fred O. Blue, as of 1962-63 — A. Harry Vest, as of 1969 — Richard Wesley, as of 1973 — Lawrence E. Morhous, as of 1983


Mercer County Delegates
to National Party Conventions

Democratic National Conventions:
   1920, San Francisco: D. M. Easley — William H. Thomas
   1924, New York: David E. French
   1928, Houston: G. C. Hash — Nettie Vass Steele
   1932, Chicago: John R. Pendleton
   1936, Philadelphia: F. G. Blackman — Joseph H. Hoge — John R. Pendleton
   1944, Chicago: Ernest L. Bailey
   1948, Philadelphia: Ernest L. Bailey — Laurence E. Tierney, Jr.
   1952, Chicago: Clarence C. Elmore — Laurence E. Tierney, Jr.
   1956, Chicago: J. Lindsey Alley — Laurence E. Tierney, Jr.
   1960, Los Angeles: Laurence E. Tierney, Jr.
   1976, New York: Robert E. Holroyd — Hawey A. Wells, Jr. — Margaret S. Wells
   2004, Boston: Emilie Holroyd
   2008, Denver: Marshall Long
Republican National Conventions:
   1900, Philadelphia: Philip Doodwill
   1904, Chicago: G. W. Atkinson
   1908, Chicago: Isaac T. Mann
   1916, Chicago: Isaac T. Mann — W. H. Thomas
   1920, Chicago: Joseph M. Sanders
   1924, Cleveland: S. R. Anderson — W. H. Wallingford
   1928, Kansas City: S. R. Anderson
   1932, Chicago: Max Matz — Kyle McCormick — Russell S. Ritz
   1936, Cleveland: Joseph M. Sanders — Luther G. Scott
   1940, Philadelphia: S. R. Anderson
   1944, Chicago: S. R. Anderson — Ernest D. Lilly — Hugh Ike Shott
   1948, Philadelphia: S. R. Anderson — Ernest D. Lilly
   1952, Chicago: Hugh Ike Shott, Jr.
   1956, San Francisco: Hugh Ike Shott, Jr.
   1960, Chicago: Fred O. Blue
   1972, Miami Beach: Hugh Ike Shott, Jr. — R. W. Wilkinson
   2008, St. Paul: Marty Gearheart
   2012, Tampa: Marty Gearheart
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