In January , 1892 , he was appointed by the Democratic National Committee as one of its members , to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John L. Mitchell . When the national convention assembled later that year , he was elected a member of that committee by the Wisconsin delegation for the full term of four years . He was later appointed , by the chairman of the national committee , one of the committee of nine to manage the campaign . At the meeting of the national committee in January , 1896 , Wall was appointed member of the committee of nine which was given full power to arrange all of the preliminaries for the convention held in Chicago in July , 1896 . At that convention he was re-elected a member of the national committee for the full term of four years
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1892 Democratic National Convention
Edward C. Wall