Involvement in U.S. Presidential Elections in 1952 and 1956
Nance was a 1952 delegate to the Democrat National Convention in Chicago IL as a supporter and convention floor organizer for fellow Oklahoman and political ally Robert S. Kerr. After Kerr withdrew from the race after the second convention ballot, Nance later supported U.S. Diplomat Averell Harriman, a late entry in the race at the 1952 Democrat National convention which nominated Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson to face Republican party nominee, General Dwight Eisenhower, the eventual winner in the U.S. presidential election, 1952. Nance was a full-fledged supporter and convention floor organizer of Harriman 4 years later in the 1956 Democratic Party convention which became a rematch of Stevenson against Harriman, and Stevenson again winning the nomination and facing Eisenhower with the same results in the U.S. presidential election, 1956.
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