Democratic Convention Trivia

Every 100 years or so, the Democratic Convention rolls into Denver. Visitors this time around no doubt are finding things a bit different from their previous gathering in 1908, which ended in the nomination of William Jennings Bryan, who went on to lose to William Howard Taft.

In honor the of occasion, CNN Politics compiled a list of Democratic Convention trivia.

Here’s a sampling:

– The longest Democratic Convention (New York, 1924) lasted 17 days.

– The shortest Democratic Convention (Baltimore, 1872) lasted just six hours.

– The oldest delegate at this year’s Democratic convention is 91-year-old Sophie Masloff of Pennsylvania. The youngest is 17-year-old David Gilbert Pederson from Minnesota.

– The first woman delegate to a Democratic national convention was seated in 1908. She was from Colorado.

– The first Democratic convention was held in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1832. President Andrew Jackson was nominated for a second term.

– The 2008 Democratic National Convention is being held later in the year than any previous convention for either party not already holding the White House.

– John F. Kennedy was the last presidential nominee to give an acceptance speech outdoors when he spoke at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1960.

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