QUESTIONS:
1. John Kerry recently considered accepting the Democratic nomination for President after adjournment of his party's national convention. Who was the first Democratic nominee for President to accept the nomination in person at the convention?
2. Who was the first Republican to accept the presidential nomination at his party's convention?
3. When was the last time an incumbent President did not attend his party's national convention?
4. There is considerable speculation over who will deliver the keynote addresses at the national party conventions this year. When was the last time there was more than one keynote speaker at a national party convention?
5. When was the last Republican convention that featured "favorite son" candidates for president from individual states?
ANSWERS:
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention in 1932.
2. Thomas E. Dewey in 1944.
3. Lyndon Johnson in 1968, who stayed away from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago following warnings of mass anti-Vietnam war demonstrations should he appear.
4. 1972, when the Republican convention in Miami featured three keynote speakers: Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, then-Mayor Richard Lugar of Indianapolis (Ind.) and National Republican Co-Chairwoman Anne L. Armstrong.
5. 1968. (In 1972, the party adopted a rule that a name could be placed in nomination for president only with support from a majority of delegates from three states.)
