Keynote Speakers
- 1896 - Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia, temporary convention chairman
- 1900 - Governor Charles Thomas of Colorado
- 1904 - Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi
- 1908 - Theodore Bell of California, former congressman, temporary convention chairman
- 1912 - Former Chief Judge and 1904 Presidential nominee Alton B. Parker of New York
- 1916 - Former Governor Martin Glynn of New York
- 1920 - Homer Cummings, Connecticut, Democratic National Committee chairman, state's attorney for Fairfield County, Connecticut, temporary convention chairman
- 1924 - Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi
- 1928 - Claude Bowers, New York, historian, political commentator and temporary convention chairman
- 1932 - Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, temporary convention chairman
- 1936 - Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, and Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas
- 1940 - Speaker of the House of Representatives William Bankhead of Alabama, temporary convention chairman
- 1944 - Governor Robert Kerr of Oklahoma, temporary convention chairman
- 1948 - Senate Minority Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky (also V.P. nominee)
- 1952 - Governor Paul Dever of Massachusetts
- 1956 - Governor Frank Clement of Tennessee
- 1960 - Senator Frank Church of Idaho
- 1964 - Senator John O. Pastore of Rhode Island
- 1968 - Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii
- 1972 - Governor Reubin Askew of Florida
- 1976 - Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas and Senator John Glenn of Ohio
- 1980 - Congressman Mo Udall of Arizona
- 1984 - Governor Mario Cuomo of New York
- 1988 - Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards
- 1992 - Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, former Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas, Governor Zell Miller of Georgia (only time with three keynote speakers)
- 1996 - Governor Evan Bayh of Indiana
- 2000 - Representative Harold Ford, Jr. of Tennessee
- 2004 - State Senator Barack Obama of Illinois
- 2008 - Former Governor Mark Warner of Virginia
- 2012 - Mayor Julian Castro of San Antonio, Texas
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