Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, 1976

Kansas Senator Bob Dole was chosen as the Republican nominee for vice president in 1976.

This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1976 election. At the 1976 Republican National Convention, incumbent President Gerald Ford narrowly won the 1976 Republican nomination for president over former California Governor Ronald Reagan. Ford had decided not to pick incumbent vice president Nelson Rockefeller as his running mate, due to Rockefeller's unpopularity with the right wing of the Republican Party.[1] Ford chose Kansas Senator Bob Dole as his running mate, instead. Dole was acceptable to the conservative wing of the party, and Ford hoped that Dole would help the ticket win the western states and the agricultural vote.[2] The Ford-Dole ticket lost the general election to the Carter-Mondale ticket. Though he did not win the nomination, Reagan announced before the convention that he would pick Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania as his running mate.[3]

Potential candidates

See also

References

  1. ↑ Roberts, Sam (31 December 2016). "Serving as Ford’s No. 2, Rockefeller Never Took His Eye Off Top Job". New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mieczkowski, Yanek (22 April 2005). Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 320–323. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Negrin, Matt (24 February 2008). "Risky strategy that doomed Reagan in '76 could boost Democrats". Boston Globe. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Sigelman, Lee; Wahlbeck, Paul (December 1997). "The "Veepstakes": Strategic Choice in Presidential Running Mate Selection". The American Political Science Review 91 (4): 858. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
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