In 1936 , Bullington charged that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's New Deal was being managed by communists . Bullington was a delegate to eight Republican national conventions from 1928 to 1956 and a member of the Texas Republican Executive Committee from 1947 to 1952 . He was the party 's state chairman from 1951 to 1952 . He was a delegate for Texas at the 1948 Republican National Convention , which met in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . At that convention , Bullington led a protest demanding that a spokesman from the Deep South be involved in the drafting of the civil rights plank of the GOP platform . As a result of his protest , Bullington and three other southerners were named to the platform committee
1948 Republican National Convention
1948 Republican National Convention
Orville Bullington