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The pro-Hillary people are exercised by the 1932 Democratic National Convention which was held in Chicago, Illinois from June 27 - July 2, 1932 and arguably a brokered convention between Randolph Heart and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

The three major contenders for the presidential nomination were Roosevelt, Garner and former governor of New York and 1928

presidential candidate, Al Smith. They roughly represented three competing factions of the Democratic Party. Smith was supported by the Tammany Hall machine in New York City, and had many supporters in the Democratic National Committee, as well as in Chicago. Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak packed the hall with Smith supporters.

The three major contenders for the presidential nomination were Roosevelt, Garner and former governor of New York and 1928 presidential candidate, Al Smith. They roughly represented three competing factions of the Democratic Party. Smith was supported by the Tammany Hall machine in New York City, and had many supporters

in the Democratic National Committee, as well as in Chicago. Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak packed the hall with Smith supporters.

A late night call was made by leading Democrat Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr, (then a Roosevelt supporter) to Hearst, reminding Hearst that if the convention continued in the same way, Smith or Baker would be nominated, two people who embodied all the political beliefs diametrically opposed to Hearst’s own. Kennedy convinced Hearst to notify Garner to bow out of the race, and to support Roosevelt. When McAdoo learned of this decision, he threw California’s delegates to Roosevelt, and the other states fell in line behind Roosevelt.