hundredth ballot One hundred third ballot The nomination was finally awarded to John W. Davis, a compromise candidate, on the one hundred third ballot, after the withdrawal of Smith and McAdoo. Davis had never been a genuine dark horse candidate; he had almost always been third in the balloting, and by the end of the 29th round he was the betting favorite of New York gamblers. There had been a Davis movement of considerable size at the 1920 San Francisco convention; however, Charles Hamlin wrote in his diary, Davis "frankly said ... that he was not seeking [the nomination] and that if nominated he would accept only as a matter of public duty". For Vice President, the Democrats nominated Charles W. Bryan, the governor of Nebraska and the brother of William Jennings Bryan, and for many years editor of The Commoner. Full Balloting A total of 58 candidates received votes over the 103 ballots, and the second ballot was the one where most candidates were voted for (20 in total). The alphabetically sorted list of all 58 candidates: Henry Tureman Allen Newton D. Baker John T. Barnett George G. Battle Martin Behrman George L. Berry Fred H. Brown Charles W. Bryan William Jennings Bryan John M. Callahan Marcus A. Coolidge Royal S. Copeland James M. Cox William Coyne Homer Stille Cummings Josephus Daniels Jonathan M. Davis John W. Davis William Emmett Dever Edward L. Doheny Edward I. Edwards Woodbridge N. Ferris William Alexander Gaston James W. Gerard Carter Glass Pat Harrison Gilbert Hitchcock David F. Houston Cordell Hull J. Holmes Jackson John B. Kendrick J. Richard Kevin Roland Krebs William Maloney Thomas R. Marshall Fred C. Martin William G. McAdoo Edwin T. Meredith Emma Guffey "Belle" Miller Albert A. Murphree Robert Latham Owen Atlee Pomerene Samuel M. Ralston Albert Ritchie Joseph Taylor Robinson Will Rogers Franklin D. Roosevelt Willard Saulsbury Jr. George Sebastian Silzer Al Smith Thomas J. Spellacy Cora Wilson Stewart William Ellery Sweet Samuel Huston Thompson Oscar Underwood David I. Walsh Thomas J. Walsh Burton K. Wheeler Vice Presidential nomination 13 names were placed into nomination for Davis' vice-presidential running mate, and early in the process, the permitted length of speeches was limited to five minutes each. Despite this, the only ballot was chaotic, with thirty people, including three women, getting at least one vote for the nomination. George Berry, a labor union leader from Tennessee, trailed Charles