Democrats nominate Cleveland-Hendricks ticket 130 years ago today (July 11 1884)

(Friday, July 11, 1884) — New York Governor Grover Cleveland was nominated president today at the Democratic National Convention meeting at the Exposition Building in Chicago.

Cleveland won with 683 second ballot votes to 81.5 for Sen. Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware. The delegates unanimously nominated Governor Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana for vice president.

The Cleveland-Hendricks ticket would oppose the Democratic ticket of James Blaine-John Logan (nominated in June 1884) in the 1884 general election.