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Michigan State Equal Rights League Convention meets in Detroit. [13] 1868 - Detroit College of Medicine founded. 1870 - Population: 79,577. [12] 1871 - Detroit City Hall built. [3] 1872 - Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument unveiled. [3] 1877 - Detroit College (now the University of Detroit Mercy and U of D Jesuit HS) is founded by the ...
Ronald Reagan giving his Acceptance Speech. The 1980 Republican National Convention convened at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, from July 14 to July 17, 1980.The Republican National Convention nominated retired Hollywood actor and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California for president and former CIA Director George H. W. Bush of Texas for vice president.
The convention bolters soon formed their own convention, located at the Maryland Institute, also in Baltimore, on June 28, 1860. At their convention Caleb Cushing again served as permanent chair and John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky was nominated for the presidency and Joseph Lane of Oregon was nominated for the vice presidency.
Karamo had scheduled a convention in Detroit. But Hoekstra scheduled one for the same day and time in Grand Rapids. Ultimately, after days of back-and-forth — with delegates who’d already ...
Jim Copas said the decision was made to cancel the Detroit convention in light of a judge's ruling Tuesday that Karamo, who called the convention, had been lawfully removed by state committee ...
The party's other 39 convention delegates are to be awarded Saturday at a convention that will feature 13 separate meetings organized based on congressional districts. Pete Hoekstra
In 2022, Detroit was featured in Time's The World's Greatest Places list. [14] Visit Detroit is the region's official destination marketing organization, promoting the Detroit metro region (Oakland, Wayne, and Macomb counties) regionally, nationally and internationally as a convention, business meeting, and tourism destination. [15]
The two right-hand columns show nominations by notable conventions not shown elsewhere. Some of the nominees (e.g. the Whigs before 1860 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912) received very large votes, while others who received less than 1% of the total national popular vote are listed to show historical continuity or transition.