and Southern states to possibly keep Bryan from attaining two-thirds of the delegates at the convention, publicly commenting that he no longer even knew why he had decided to run for president at all; He effectively withdrew around this time. After this there was a major boom for his nomination as vice president on the ticket alongside Bryan; however Dewey resolutely refused to be considered. William Jennings Bryan was faced with little real opposition after Dewey withdrew from the race. Bryan won at the 1900 Democratic National Convention held at Kansas City, Missouri, on July 4–6, garnering 936 delegate votes for the nomination. Official or speculated candidates for the vice-presidential nomination: Adlai Stevenson I, Former Vice President and former Representative from Illinois Charles A. Towne, Former Representative from Minnesota Elliott Danforth, Former Democratic State Committee Chairman from New York William Sulzer, Representative from New York Joseph C. Sibley, Representative from Pennsylvania Robert E. Pattison, Former Governor of Pennsylvania George F. Williams, Former Representative from Massachusetts James P. Tarvin, Judge from Kentucky George B. McClellan Jr., Representative from New York John W. Daniel, Senator and Former Representative from Virginia John J. Lentz, Representative from Ohio Carter Harrison Jr., Mayor of Chicago, Illinois John W. Keller, Charities Commissioner of New York City, from New York David B. Hill, Former Senator from and former Governor of New York John Walter Smith, Representative from Maryland Jim Hogg, Former Governor of Texas Edward Atkinson, Economist and founding member of the American Anti-Imperialist League from Massachusetts Winfield Scott Schley, Rear Admiral in the United States Navy from Maryland Henry Clay Caldwell, Federal Judge from Arkansas Alton B. Parker, Chief Judge from New York Benjamin F. Shively, Former Representative from Indiana George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy from Vermont William Randolph Hearst, Business magnate from New York William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, soldier, bison hunter and showman from Colorado Augustus Van Wyck, Former Court Justice from New York People's Party nomination As the nation's third largest party, the Populists had made an organizational decision in 1896 to "fuse" with the Democratic Party on the national level - their identity kept separate by the nomination of two different candidates for vice-president. At the state level, local Populist parties were left at liberty to proceed as they saw fit. In the Plains states, the Populists fused with the Democrats, and in some states replaced them entirely. In the South,