Chicago also made a bid for the 1996 Republican National Convention, but a clause in the contract with the Democrats required the city to withdraw it.

Gingrich said he didn't view efforts to cast the four-day extravaganza as a "different kind of Republican convention" as a direct attack on his leadership during the 1996 party gathering ...

Many men went to Cleveland hoping, trying to put an anti-Ku Klux Klan plank in the Republican platform. They had prepared a plank which read thus: This party pledges itself and its candidates to stand ...

You can't make this stuff up,' said the suited Republican as the line inched forward. The convention began with the bang of a gavel, followed by a prayer and then the Trump-appropriated anthem of ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- Senator Hanna, Senator Scott, Joseph H. Manley, and the architect of the Republican National Convention Hall at Philadelphia, together with Mr. Shields, Chairman of the ...