Eisenhower nominated on first ballot by GOP convention 60 years ago this hour (1952)

1950s, U.S. Presidents


Video: Voting, nomination (at 1:36)

(Friday, July 11, 1952, 2:49 p.m. EDT) — General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower won a hard-fought first-ballot nomination today as the Republican candidate for president, beating Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio 595-500 on the first ballot (nine short of the 604 needed for nomination) before Minnesota started a shift of votes, which ended in an 845-280 Eisenhower victory.