and was therefore nominated. Presidential candidates Declined Vice Presidential balloting Senator Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama was the only candidate for the vice presidential nomination. During the call of the states, every vote recorded was in favor of Fitzpatrick with no exception until Pennsylvania was reached. One of Pennsylvania's votes was announced for William C. Alexander of New Jersey. Upon this announcement, a New Jersey delegate informed the delegates that he had been authorized before the convention, by Alexander himself, not to allow his name to be presented as a candidate. The Pennsylvanian who desired Alexander cast one blank vote thereafter. Vice Presidential candidate Vice Presidential replacement After the unanimous nomination of Fitzpatrick as the candidate for Vice President, the convention adjourned on June 23rd, the sixth and last day of its session. On the same day, but after the adjournment, Fitzpatrick declined the nomination. Fitzpatrick's refusal of the vice presidential nomination occurred sixteen years after Silas Wright was the first to turndown the honor. In 1924, Frank Lowden would be the third and last person to date who refused their party's vice presidential nomination. Vice Presidential candidate Since the convention had already adjourned, the Executive Committee would have to name a replacement. On motion of Mr. Dick, the lone delegate from North Carolina, the vice presidential nomination was immediately conferred on former Senator and Governor Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia by unanimous acclamation. Baltimore convention (Southern Democratic) A second convention assembled at Baltimore on June 23, 1860. It was composed chiefly of the delegates who had just withdrawn from the Northern Democratic convention. One of their first acts was to abrogate the two-thirds rule, as had been done by the Douglas convention. Both conventions acted under the same necessity, because the preservation of this rule would have prevented a nomination by either. The majority resolutions, whose replacement by the minority report facilitated the breakup of the Charleston convention, were reported and "adopted unanimously, amid great applause." Presidential balloting After the adoption of the majority resolutions, the convention proceeded to select their candidates. Four names were placed in nomination: Breckinridge, Dickinson, Hunter, and Lane. Presidential candidates Despite instructions from their state convention, the Mississippi delegation, with Jefferson Davis' concurrence, desired that his name be removed from possible consideration for the sake of harmony. The names of Hunter and Lane were subsequently withdrawn in the spirit of harmony and unanimity. After New