After the governor 's race , McLemore was a Louisiana delegate to the 1952 Democratic National Convention , which met in Chicago to nominate Adlai E. Stevenson , II , and John Sparkman to carry the party banner against the Republican ticket of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon . Stevenson won the Louisiana electoral vote in 1952 but not in 1956 when he was again the Democrat standard-bearer against Eisenhower
1952 Democratic National Convention
1952 Democratic National Convention
James M. McLemore