He said he was hopeful that the convention would offer its constitution to the people for their approval or rejection.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

A spokesman for the Convention and Visitors Bureau,Steve Lewis,says economic activity last month was down five percent from February of last year.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Southern members supported it. Delegates to the convention chose a candidate who seemed to support the party's policies.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

If Yancey failed to get the statement he wanted, he would take Southern Democrats out of the convention.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

The delegates agreed that a man must win two-thirds of the convention's votes to be the party's candidate.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

The convention named former United States Senator Jefferson Davis to be president of the Confederate States of America.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Roosevelt's chief political adviser, James Farley, worked hard to find Roosevelt the votes he needed at the convention.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

The bill gave supporters of slavery every chance to control the election of delegates to the convention.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

There was a wild demonstration of support when his name was put before the convention.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

In the last two years, more than one hundred forty countries have signed a United Nations treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

The name of Senator James Blaine of Maine also was put before the convention.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

On the fourth vote, the convention chose Cass as the party's presidential candidate.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

On the seventh ballot of the convention, Rutherford Hayes captured the Republican nomination.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

On April seventeenth, the convention voted to take Virginia out of the Union.

VOA: special.2009.08.13