This is alist of Democratic National Conventions. These conventions are thepresidential nominating conventions of theDemocratic Party of the United States of America.

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• Conventions whose nominees won the subsequent presidential election are tinted in light blue.
• Four other conventions — in 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016 — which nominated candidates who won the popular vote, but not theElectoral College, are tinted in pale yellow.

Footnotes

¹[1832] A resolution endorsing "the repeated nominations which he [Jackson] has received in various parts of the Union" was passed by the convention.
²[1840] A resolution stating "that the convention deem it expedient at the present time not to choose between the individuals in nomination, but to leave the decision to their Republican fellow-citizens in the several states" was passed by the convention. Most Van Buren electors voted for Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky for the vice presidency; others voted forLittleton Waller Tazewell of Virginia and James K. Polk of Tennessee in theelection of 1840.
³[1844]Silas Wright of New York was first nominated and he declined the nomination.
⁴[1860 June] Caleb Cushing resigned as permanent chair.
⁵[1860 June] Douglas and Johnson were chosen as the candidates of the Front Street Theater convention after most of the Southern delegations walked out. The convention bolters soon formed their own convention, located at the Maryland Institute, also in Baltimore, on June 28, 1860. At their convention Caleb Cushing again served as permanent chair and John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky was nominated for the presidency andJoseph Lane ofOregon was nominated for the vice presidency. (1860 Southern Democratic platform)
⁶[1860 June]Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama was first nominated but he declined the nomination.
⁷[1872] Greeley and B. Gratz Brown had already been endorsed by theLiberal Republican Party, meeting on May 1 in Cincinnati. A dissident group ofStraight-Out Democrats, meeting inLouisville, Kentucky on September 3, nominatedCharles O'Conor ofNew York for President andJohn Quincy Adams II of Massachusetts for Vice President, but both men declined the nomination.^[9]
8[1896] "Gold" Democrats opposed to theFree Silver plank of the 1896 platform and to Wm J. Bryan's candidacy convened as theNational Democratic Party inIndianapolis on September 2, and nominatedJohn M. Palmer of Illinois for President and former GovernorSimon Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky for Vice President.
⁹[1896] Bryan was later nominated for President in St. Louis, together withThomas E. Watson of Georgia for Vice President, by the NationalSilver Republican Party meeting on July 22, and by thePeople's Party (Populists) meeting on July 25.^[10]
10 [1948] Breakaway delegations left the Philadelphia Convention for conventions of theProgressive andStates Rights Democratic Parties. The Progressives, meeting on July 23, also in Philadelphia, nominated former Vice President Henry A. Wallace of Iowa for President and SenatorGlen H. Taylor ofIdaho for Vice President. (1948 Progressive Party platform)
The States' Rights Democrats (or "Dixiecrats"), meeting inBirmingham, Alabama on July 17, nominated GovernorsStrom Thurmond ofSouth Carolina for President andFielding Wright ofMississippi for Vice President. (1948 States' Rights Democratic platform)^[11]
11[1972] Eagleton withdrew his candidacy after the convention and was replaced bySargent Shriver ofMaryland.
¹²[2016]Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida was intended to be the Temporary Chair, but was substituted for Stephanie Rawlings-Blake by the Democratic National Committee in the wake of the Wasserman/DNC email leak scandal. Wasserman resigned as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee effective after the close of the convention.^[12]
13[2020] Originally scheduled for July 13–16, and originally planned for theFiserv Forum, but postponed and moved due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.
¹⁴[2020] Centered in Milwaukee, but many speeches and roll call responses were given remotely due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.^[13]

• 1896 – U.S. SenatorJohn W. Daniel of Virginia^[14]
• 1900 – GovernorCharles S. Thomas of Colorado^[15]
• 1904 – U.S. RepresentativeJohn Sharp Williams of Mississippi^[15]
• 1908 – U.S. RepresentativeTheodore Bell of California^[16]
• 1912 – Chief JudgeAlton B. Parker of New York
• 1916 – GovernorMartin Glynn of New York^[17]
• 1920 – DNC ChairHomer Cummings of Connecticut^[18]
• 1924 – U.S. SenatorPat Harrison of Mississippi^[19]
• 1928 –Claude Bowers of New York^[20]
• 1932 – U.S. SenatorAlben Barkley of Kentucky^[21]
• 1936 – U.S. SenatorAlben Barkley of Kentucky and U.S. SenatorJoseph Robinson of Arkansas^[22]
• 1940 – U.S. RepresentativeWilliam Bankhead of Alabama^[23]
• 1944 – GovernorRobert Kerr of Oklahoma^[24]
• 1948 – U.S. SenatorAlben Barkley of Kentucky^[25]
• 1952 – GovernorPaul Dever of Massachusetts^[26]
• 1956 – GovernorFrank Clement of Tennessee^[27]
• 1960 – U.S. SenatorFrank Church of Idaho
• 1964 – U.S. SenatorJohn O. Pastore of Rhode Island^[28]
• 1968 – U.S. SenatorDaniel Inouye of Hawaii
• 1972 – GovernorReubin Askew of Florida^[29]
• 1976 – U.S. RepresentativeBarbara Jordan of Texas and U.S. SenatorJohn Glenn of Ohio^[30]
• 1980 – U.S. RepresentativeMo Udall of Arizona
• 1984 – GovernorMario Cuomo of New York^[25]
• 1988 – State TreasurerAnn Richards of Texas
• 1992 – U.S. SenatorBill Bradley of New Jersey, U.S. RepresentativeBarbara Jordan of Texas, and GovernorZell Miller of Georgia^[25]
• 1996 – GovernorEvan Bayh of Indiana
• 2000 – U.S. RepresentativeHarold Ford Jr. of Tennessee
• 2004 – State SenatorBarack Obama of Illinois
• 2008 – GovernorMark Warner of Virginia
• 2012 – MayorJulián Castro of Texas
• 2016 – U.S. SenatorElizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
• 2020 –17 speakers
• 2024 – County ExecutiveAngela Alsobrooks of Maryland

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  Wood engraving of the failed 1860 Charleston convention
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  Tammany Hall decorated for the 1868 convention
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  Interior ofFord's Grand Opera House during the 1872 convention
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  1876 convention
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  1880 convention.
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  Diagram of Convention Hall, Chicago, site of the 1884 convention
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  Opening session at the 1904 convention
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  1912 convention in-session
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  1924 convention in-session
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  Photograph of the 1928 convention
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  First LadyEleanor Roosevelt speaking on the final day of the 1940 convention
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  1960 convention hall
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  1964 convention floor
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  Carter and Mondale stand together at the end of the 1976 convention
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  1996 convention hall
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  Boston mayorThomas Menino welcomes delegates to the 2004 convention
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  Floor of the 2008 convention
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  Invesco Field, site ofBarack Obama's 2008 acceptance speech
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  Floor of the 2012 convention
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  NomineeHillary Clinton speaks at the 2016 convention

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