He was a delegate to all Republican conventions between 1976 and 2000.

In all Republican conventions since 1948, the nominee has been selected on the first ballot.

This is the last time a Republican presidential convention opened without the nominee having already been decided in the primaries.

There were actually two Republican conventions in Houston, not one.

Republican conventions, taken one by one, have rarely been famous.

That year she was the first woman subcommittee chair to be a delegate-at-large at a Republican national convention.

Swails was a delegate to the 1868, 1872 and 1876 Republican national conventions.

He was also a Delegate to the 1888 and 1892 Republican national conventions.

Paul, Minnesota where the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions were to be held.

He served in the 1868-69 constitutional convention, the Texas senate, and as a delegate to two Republican national conventions.

The Republican convention stands in testimony to how the party's fortunes have changed.

Little has helped, except - believe it or not - the Republican convention, which liberated me from my car.

"Certainly his speech at the Republican convention later that year sent the message loud and clear," she writes.

Even some welcomed into the tent realized that the rest of the convention might end up looking more like Republican conventions gone by.

The Republican convention will be three hours shorter than the one in Boston.

Until he spoke, the Republican Convention was going nowhere fast.

Fend for itself just as before, during and after 9/11, with the exception, of course, of when the Republican convention was in town.

The Republican convention two years ago in Houston showed how deep the potential schisms within the party are.

By the time the Republican convention opened, Nixon had no opponents for the nomination.

This was because every few minutes commentators broke in to point out just how far to the right the Republican convention was aimed.