The 1952 Democratic National Convention was held in the International Amphitheatre in Chicago , the same venue where the Republicans had gathered two weeks earlier . The primary season had been decisively in Kefauver 's favor and he had momentum coming in , but President Truman was still angry at " Cow-Fever 's " defeat of him in New Hampshire , and the Tennessee Senator was unable to get enough delegate strength to win the nomination outright due to the delegate selection processes in most of the states at the time . The convention itself would prove , in retrospect , the last of its kind
1952 Democratic National Convention
1952 Democratic National Convention
1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries