Aug. 28, 1968:
Vice President Hubert Humphrey is nominated for president on the first ballot of a tumultuous and divisive Democratic convention in Chicago.
He receives 1,760-1/4 delegates, far outdistancing Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, who gets 601 delegates. Others whose names are placed in nomination are South Dakota Sen. George McGovern, the Rev. Channing Phillips, and North Carolina Gov. Dan Moore.
Humphrey will spend much of the fall campaign trying to unify his party. He will narrowly lose the election to former Vice President Richard Nixon.
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