1852 Democratic National Convention
{{Short description|U.S. political event held in Baltimore, Maryland}}
{{Infobox National Political Convention
| year = 1852
| party = Democratic
| image = George Peter Alexander Healy - Franklin Pierce - Google Art Project.jpg
| image2 = William Rufus DeVane King 1839 portrait.jpg
| image_size2 = 93
| caption = Nominees
Pierce and King
| date = June 1–5, 1852
| venue = Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts
| presidential_nominee = Franklin Pierce
| presidential_nominee_state = New Hampshire
| vice_presidential_nominee = William R. King
| vice_presidential_nominee_state = Alabama
| previous_year = 1848
| next_year = 1856
}}
The 1852 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention that met from June 1 to June 5 in Baltimore, Maryland. It was held to nominate the Democratic Party's candidates for president and vice president in the 1852 election. The convention selected former Senator Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire for president and Senator William R. King of Alabama for vice president.
Four major candidates vied for the presidential nomination – Lewis Cass of Michigan, the nominee in 1848, who had the backing of northerners in support of the Compromise of 1850; James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, popular in the South as well as in his home state; Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, candidate of the expansionists and the railroad interests; and William L. Marcy of New York, whose strength was centered in his home state. Cass led on the first nineteen ballots of the convention, but was unable to win the necessary two-thirds majority. Buchanan pulled ahead on the twentieth ballot, but he too was unable to win a two-thirds majority. Pierce won votes for the first time on the 35th ballot, and was nominated almost unanimously on the 49th ballot.
King was nominated on the second vice presidential ballot, defeating Senator Solomon W. Downs and several other candidates. The Democratic ticket went on to win the 1852 election, defeating the Whig ticket of Winfield Scott and William Alexander Graham.
Convention proceedings
The convention took place at the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts and was called to order by Democratic National Committee chairman Benjamin F. Hallett.{{Cite book |last=Johnson |first=Charles W. |date=1852 |title=Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention Held at Baltimore, June 1–5, 1852 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t3806c46m |page=3 |publisher=Robert Armstrong |location=Washington, DC |hdl=2027/loc.ark:/13960/t3806c46m |via=HathiTrust |ref={{sfnRef|Proceedings}}}} Romulus M. Saunders served as the temporary convention chairman and John W. Davis served as the permanent convention president.{{sfn|Proceedings|pages=3, 7}} Delegates at the convention approved a platform that largely mimicked the one adopted in 1848. Two notable additions were the denouncement of a national bank and an endorsement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.{{Cite book |last=Havel |first=James T. |title=U.S. Presidential Elections and the Candidates: A Biographical and Historical Guide |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=1996 |isbn=0-02-864623-1 |volume=2: The Elections, 1789-1992 |location=New York |pages=26}}
Presidential nomination
= Dark horse candidates =
File:George Peter Alexander Healy - Franklin Pierce - Google Art Project.jpg|Former Senator
Franklin Pierce
of New Hampshire
Image:Henry Cruse Murphy.jpg|Former Representative
Henry C. Murphy
of New York
= Major presidential candidates =
File:Lewis Cass crop.jpg|Senator
Lewis Cass
of Michigan
File:JamesBuchanan_crop.jpg|Former Secretary of State
James Buchanan
of Pennsylvania
File:William Learned Marcy.jpg|Former Secretary of War
William L. Marcy
of New York
File:BradyHandy-StephenADouglas restored.jpg|Senator
Stephen A. Douglas
of Illinois
= Minor presidential candidates =
Image:WilliamOButler.jpg|Former Representative
William O. Butler
of Kentucky
Image:JosephLane.png|House Delegate
Joseph Lane
of Oregon
Image:SHouston 2.jpg|Senator
Sam Houston
of Texas
Image:Henry Dodge portrait.jpg|Senator
Henry Dodge
of Wisconsin
= Declined =
Image:Daniel Dickinson NY.jpg|Former Senator
Daniel S. Dickinson
of New York
(Endorsed Cass)
= Balloting =
As Democrats convened in Baltimore in June 1852, four major candidates vied for the nomination – Lewis Cass of Michigan, the nominee in 1848, who had the backing of northerners in support of the Compromise of 1850; James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, popular in the South as well as in his home state; Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, candidate of the expansionists and the railroad interests; and William L. Marcy of New York, whose strength was centered in his home state. Throughout the balloting, numerous favorite son candidates received a few votes.
With a two-thirds majority required to win, Cass led on the first 19 ballots, with Buchanan second and Douglas and Marcy exchanging third and fourth places. Buchanan took the lead on the 20th ballot and retained it on each of the next nine tallies. Douglas managed a narrow lead on the 30th and 31st ballots. Cass then recaptured first place through the 44th ballot. Marcy carried the next four ballots.
Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, a former Congressman and Senator, did not get on the board until the 35th ballot, when the Virginia delegation brought him forward as a compromise choice, selecting Pierce as their dark horse by one vote over former New York Congressman and Brooklyn Mayor Henry C. Murphy, and then supporting him as a unit.{{cite book |last=Stiles |first= Henry Reed |date=1883 |title=Memoir of Hon. Henry C. Murphy, LL.D., of Brooklyn, N.Y. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GZkyAQAAMAAJ&q=%22henry+c+murphy%22+1852+convention&pg=RA1-PA14 |publisher=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volumes 13–14 |page= 14}} After being nominated by the Virginia delegation, Pierce's support remained steady until the 46th ballot, when it began to increase at Cass's expense. Pierce's support was consolidated in subsequent voting, and he was nominated nearly unanimously on the 49th ballot.William DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents, Gramercy 1997
According to Edward Stanwood, there was "no doubt that the nomination of General Pierce was carefully planned before the convention met. The originator of the scheme was James W. Bradbury, then a senator from Maine, a college mate and lifelong friend of Pierce."{{cite book |last=Stanwood |first= Edward |date=1898 |title=A History of the Presidency: From 1788 to 1897 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQkMAAAAIAAJ&q=James+W.+Bradbury |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company |page= 248}}
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="26" | Presidential Ballot |
| ||1st || 2nd || 3rd || 4th || 5th || 6th || 7th || 8th || 9th || 10th || 11th || 12th || 13th || 14th || 15th || 16th || 17th || 18th || 19th || 20th || 21st || 22nd || 23rd || 24th || 25th |
|---|
| Cass
|style="background:#5cb3ff"|116 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|118 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|119 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|115 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|114 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|114 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|113 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|113 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|112 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|111 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|101 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|98 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|98 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|99 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|99 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|99 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|99 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|96 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|89 |style="background:#82caff"|81 |style="background:#c2dfff"|60 |style="background:#c2dfff"|43 |style="background:#c2dfff"|37 |style="background:#c2dfff"|33 |style="background:#c2dfff"|34 |
| Buchanan
|style="background:#82caff"|93 |style="background:#82caff"|95 |style="background:#82caff"|94 |style="background:#82caff"|89 |style="background:#82caff"|89 |style="background:#82caff"|88 |style="background:#82caff"|88 |style="background:#82caff"|88 |style="background:#82caff"|87 |style="background:#82caff"|86 |style="background:#82caff"|87 |style="background:#82caff"|88 |style="background:#82caff"|88 |style="background:#82caff"|87 |style="background:#82caff"|87 |style="background:#82caff"|87 |style="background:#82caff"|87 |style="background:#82caff"|85 |style="background:#82caff"|85 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|92 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|102 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|104 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|103 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|103 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|101 |
| Marcy
|style="background:#c2dfff"|27 |style="background:#c2dfff"|27 |style="background:#c2dfff"|26 ||25 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||27 ||27 ||27 ||27 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||25 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||26 |
| Douglas
||20 ||23 ||21 |style="background:#c2dfff"|31 |style="background:#c2dfff"|33 |style="background:#c2dfff"|34 |style="background:#c2dfff"|34 |style="background:#c2dfff"|34 |style="background:#c2dfff"|39 |style="background:#c2dfff"|40 |style="background:#c2dfff"|50 |style="background:#c2dfff"|51 |style="background:#c2dfff"|51 |style="background:#c2dfff"|51 |style="background:#c2dfff"|51 |style="background:#c2dfff"|51 |style="background:#c2dfff"|51 |style="background:#c2dfff"|56 |style="background:#c2dfff"|63 |style="background:#c2dfff"|64 |style="background:#82caff"|64 |style="background:#82caff"|77 |style="background:#82caff"|78 |style="background:#82caff"|80 |style="background:#82caff"|79 |
| Butler
||2 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||13 ||15 ||20 ||23 ||24 |
| Dickinson
||1 ||1 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 |
| Lane
||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||14 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 |
| Houston
||8 ||6 ||7 ||7 ||8 ||8 ||9 ||9 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||9 ||10 ||10 ||10 ||10 ||9 ||11 ||9 ||10 ||9 ||9 ||10 ||9 ||10 |
| Weller
||4 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Dodge
||3 ||3 ||3 ||3 ||3 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 ||3 ||3 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Blank
||9 ||9 ||12 ||12 ||8 ||11 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||9 ||8 ||9 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 |
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="34" | Presidential Ballot |
| ||26th || 27th || 28th || 29th || 30th || 31st || 32nd || 33rd || 34th || 35th || 36th || 37th || 38th || 39th || 40th || 41st || 42nd || 43rd || 44th || 45th || 46th || 47th || 48th || 49th |
|---|
| Pierce
|style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 ||15 ||30 ||29 ||29 ||29 ||29 ||29 ||29 ||29 ||29 ||29 |style="background:#c2dfff"|44 |style="background:#c2dfff"|49 |style="background:#c2dfff"|55 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|282 |
| Cass
|style="background:#c2dfff"|33 |style="background:#c2dfff"|32 |style="background:#c2dfff"|28 |style="background:#c2dfff"|27 |style="background:#c2dfff"|33 |style="background:#c2dfff"|65 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|98 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|123 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|130 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|131 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|122 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|120 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|107 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|106 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|107 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|107 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|101 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|101 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|101 |style="background:#82caff"|96 |style="background:#82caff"|78 |style="background:#82caff"|75 |style="background:#82caff"|72 ||2 |
| Buchanan
|style="background:#5cb3ff"|101 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|98 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|96 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|93 |style="background:#82caff"|91 |style="background:#82caff"|78 |style="background:#c2dfff"|74 |style="background:#82caff"|72 |style="background:#c2dfff"|49 ||39 ||28 ||28 ||28 ||28 ||27 ||27 ||27 ||27 ||27 ||27 ||28 ||28 ||28 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Marcy
||26 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||26 ||25 ||33 |style="background:#c2dfff"|44 |style="background:#82caff"|58 |style="background:#82caff"|70 |style="background:#82caff"|84 |style="background:#82caff"|85 |style="background:#82caff"|85 |style="background:#82caff"|85 |style="background:#82caff"|91 |style="background:#82caff"|91 |style="background:#82caff"|91 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|97 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|98 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|95 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|89 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Douglas
|style="background:#82caff"|80 |style="background:#82caff"|85 |style="background:#82caff"|88 |style="background:#82caff"|91 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|92 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|92 |style="background:#82caff"|80 |style="background:#c2dfff"|60 |style="background:#82caff"|53 |style="background:#82caff"|52 |style="background:#c2dfff"|43 |style="background:#c2dfff"|34 |style="background:#c2dfff"|33 |style="background:#c2dfff"|33 |style="background:#c2dfff"|33 |style="background:#c2dfff"|33 |style="background:#c2dfff"|33 |style="background:#c2dfff"|33 |style="background:#c2dfff"|33 |style="background:#c2dfff"|32 ||32 ||33 ||33 ||2 |
| Butler
||24 ||24 ||25 ||25 ||20 ||17 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 |
| Dickinson
||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||16 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 ||1 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Lane
||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 ||13 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Houston
||10 ||9 ||11 ||12 ||12 ||9 ||8 ||6 ||5 ||5 ||5 ||5 ||5 ||5 ||5 ||5 ||5 ||5 ||5 ||5 ||5 ||5 ||6 ||1 |
| Boyd
|style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 ||1 ||2 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| King
|style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 ||1 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Ingersoll
|style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 ||1 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Blank
||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||9 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 ||8 |
Source:{{sfn|Proceedings|pages=28–50}}
1st Day of Presidential Balloting / 3rd Day of Convention (June 3, 1852)
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination1stBallot.png|1st Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination2ndBallot.png|2nd Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination3rdBallot.png|3rd Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination4thBallot.png|4th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination5thBallot.png|5th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination6thBallot.png|6th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination7th8thBallots.png|7th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination7th8thBallots.png|8th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination9thBallot.png|9th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination10thBallot.png|10th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination11thBallot.png|11th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination12thBallot.png|12th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination13thBallot.png|13th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination14th15th16thBallots.png|14th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination14th15th16thBallots.png|15th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination14th15th16thBallots.png|16th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination17thBallot.png|17th Ballot
2nd Day of Presidential Balloting / 4th Day of Convention (June 4, 1852)
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination18thBallot.png|18th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination19thBallot.png|19th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination20thBallot.png|20th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination21stBallot.png|21st Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination22ndBallot.png|22nd Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination23rdBallot.png|23rd Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination24thBallot.png|24th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination25thBallot.png|25th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination26thBallot.png|26th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination27thBallot.png|27th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination28thBallot.png|28th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination29thBallot.png|29th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination30thBallot.png|30th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination31stBallot.png|31st Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination32ndBallot.png|32nd Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination33rdBallot.png|33rd Ballot
3rd Day of Presidential Balloting / 5th Day of Convention (June 5, 1852)
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination34thBallot.png|34th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination35thBallot.png|35th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination36thBallot.png|36th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination37thBallot.png|37th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination38thBallot.png|38th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination39thBallot.png|39th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination40th41stBallots.png|40th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination40th41stBallots.png|41st Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination42nd43rd44thBallots.png|42nd Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination42nd43rd44thBallots.png|43rd Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination42nd43rd44thBallots.png|44th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination45thBallot.png|45th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination46thBallot.png|46th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination47thBallot.png|47th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination48thBallot.png|48th Ballot
File:1852DemocraticPresidentialNomination49thBallot.png|49th Ballot
Vice presidential nomination
= Vice presidential candidates =
File:William Rufus DeVane King 1839 portrait.jpg|Senator
William R. King
of Alabama
Image:Solomon Weathersbee Downs.jpg|Senator
Solomon W. Downs
of Louisiana
Image:John B Weller by William F Cogswell, 1879.jpg|Senator
John B. Weller
of California
Image:David Rice Atchison by Mathew Brady March 1849.jpg|Senator
David Rice Atchison
of Missouri
Image:General Gideon Johnson Pillow.jpg|Major General
Gideon J. Pillow
of Tennessee
Image:NC-Congress-RogerStrange.jpg|Former Senator
Robert Strange
of North Carolina
= Declined =
File:WilliamOButler.jpg|Former Representative
William O. Butler
of Kentucky
File:TJRusk.jpg|Senator
Thomas J. Rusk
of Texas
File:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|Former Senator
Jefferson Davis
of Mississippi
File:Howell Cobb-crop.jpg|Governor
Howell Cobb
of Georgia
Image:1852DemocraticPoster.png
In a peace gesture to the Buchanan wing of the party, Pierce's supporters allowed Buchanan's allies to fill the second position, knowing that they would select Alabama Senator William R. King, to whom Pierce had no objections. King won the nomination on the second ballot. During the ensuing campaign, King's tuberculosis, which he believed he had contracted while living in Paris, denied him the active behind-the-scenes role that he might otherwise have played, although he worked hard to assure his region's voters with the statement that New Hampshire's Pierce was a "northern man with southern principles."
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="3" | Vice Presidential Ballot{{sfn|Proceedings|pages=66–67}} |
| ||1st || 2nd |
|---|
| King
|style="background:#5cb3ff"|125 |style="background:#5cb3ff"|277 |
| Downs
|style="background:#82caff"|30 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Weller
|style="background:#c2dfff"|28 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Atchison
||25 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Pillow
||25 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Strange
||23 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Butler
||13 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Rusk
||13 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Davis
||2 |style="background:#82caff"|11 |
| Cobb
||2 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Not Voting
||2 |style="background:#d3d3d3"|0 |
| Not Represented
||8 ||8 |
File:1852DemocraticVicePresidentialNomination1stBallot.png|1st Vice Presidential Ballot
File:1852DemocraticVicePresidentialNomination2ndBallot.png|2nd Vice Presidential Ballot
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29575 Democratic Party Platform of 1852] at The American Presidency Project
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