Video: 'The American Presidential Election of 1884'

(Friday, July 11, 1884, 12:50 p.m. CST) — Governor Grover Cleveland of New York was nominated for president of the United States today by delegates at the 1884 Democratic National Convention meeting at the Exposition Building in Chicago.

Cleveland won on the second ballot (after shifts) with 683 votes to 81.5 for Sen. Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware.

Former Governor Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana, who was the 1876 Democratic vice presidential nominee (he narrowly lost in one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history), was overwhelmingly nominated as Cleveland’s running mate with 816 votes and 4 abstentions.

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