1972 Republican National Convention

1972 Republican National Convention

1972 presidential election
Nominees Nixon and Agnew
Convention
Date(s)	August 21–23, 1972
City	Miami Beach, Florida
Venue	Miami Beach Convention Center
Keynote speaker	Anne Armstrong
Candidates
Presidential nominee	Richard M. Nixon of California
Vice presidential nominee	Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland
‹ 1968 · 1976 ›

The 1972 Republican National Convention was held from August 21 to August 23, 1972, at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida. It nominated President Richard M. Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew for reelection. The convention was chaired by House minority leader and future Nixon successor Gerald Ford of Michigan. It was the fifth time that Nixon had been nominated on the Republican ticket for vice president (1952 and 1956) or president (1960 and 1968). Nixon's five appearances on his party's ticket matched the major-party American standard of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat who had been nominated for vice president once (in 1920) and president four times (in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944).

The convention was the first Republican convention scheduled for only three days since 1944, joining only the 2012 Democratic National Convention as the only conventions in modern convention history to be scheduled for three days.