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Why the 1924 Democratic National Convention Was the Longest and Most Chaotic of Its Kind in U.S. History
“I belong to no organized party,” the humorist Will Rogers said in 1924. “I’m a Democrat.” Rogers had just witnessed the longest and by some accounts “wildest” political convention in American history: the 1924 Democratic National Convention, which took 16 …