Curtis received 64 votes on the presidential ballot at the 1928 Republican National Convention in Kansas City , out of 1,084 total . The winning candidate , Herbert Hoover , secured 837 votes , having been the favorite for the nomination since August 1927 ( when President Calvin Coolidge took himself out of contention ) . Curtis was a leader of the anti-Hoover movement , forming an alliance with two of his Senate colleagues , Guy Goff and James E. Watson , as well as Governor Frank Lowden of Illinois . Less than a week before the convention , he described Hoover as a man " for whom the party will be on the defensive from the day he is named until the close of the polls on election day " . But , despite his earlier opposition , Curtis had no qualms about accepting the vice-presidential nomination
1928 Republican National Convention
1928 Republican National Convention
Charles Curtis