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Democratic Party's first national nominating convention opens in Baltimore

Delegates of the Democratic Party met in Baltimore on May 21 to begin the party's first formal national nominating convention, which ran through May 23.

The convention institutionalized a new method for selecting the presidential ticket—culminating in Jackson's renomination—and marked a key development in the rise of modern party nominating practices.

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