At the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago , Illinois , Bullington supported U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio for the presidential nomination against the native-born Texan , Dwight D. Eisenhower . Bullington sought to impose a loyalty pledge for participants in the 1952 Texas Republican precinct , county , and state conventions . Later in the year , Bullington was among several men accused of having engaged in unfair practices to derail Eisenhower 's nomination . Bullington wavered in his support for Taft , and , as the state GOP chairman in 1952 , publicly confessed that his own faction had been unfair to the Eisenhower Republicans in delegate selection . The Texas delegation , after a bitterly divided state convention in Mineral Wells , finally voted thirty-three for Eisenhower and five for Taft though the latter forces claimed that Democrats had provided Eisenhower 's margin by packing the early precinct conventions
1952 Republican National Convention
1952 Republican National Convention
Orville Bullington