Republican National Convention: Timeline

1912   The Republican National Convention nominates incumbent President William Howard Taft in Chicago Chicago

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, defeating a challenge by former President Theodore Roosevelt, whose delegates bolt the convention.

1964   At the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, U.S. presidential nominee Barry Goldwater Barry Goldwater

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 declares that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice", and "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue".

1980   Former California California

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 Governor and actor Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan

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 is nominated for U.S. President, at the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan Detroit, Michigan

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. Influenced by the Religious Right, the convention also drops its long standing support for the Equal Rights Amendment, much to the chagrin of moderate Republicans.

1992   At the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas Houston, Texas

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, U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle Dan Quayle

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 are renominated. Pat Buchanan, one of Bush's opponents in the primaries, delivers a controversial convention speech, in which he refers to a "religious war" in the country.