Nomination Acceptance Speeches and Messages

     Democratic Party

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win state
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Adlai Stevenson

     Republican Party

did nominee
win state
hosting
convention?

* These speeches were delivered (or letters prepared) at another location, not the nominating convention.

¹ Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1940 address was broadcast from the White House to the convention meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

² Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 address was broadcast from San Diego, California to the convention meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

³ Joseph R. Biden's 2020 acceptance address was delivered from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, although the Democratic National Convention was held "virtually" from Milwaukee, Wisconsin due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

⁴ Donald J. Trump's 2020 acceptance address was delivered from the South Lawn at the White House although the Democratic National Convention was held "virtually" from Charlotte, North Carolina due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt was the first nominee to appear at a convention in person to accept the nomination.

nd = Time not determined due to a complete recording not available at the time this compilation was assembled, or the message was in writing.

Length in time was determined using video available in the C-SPAN archives. The time began when the nominee began speaking from prepared text, and excludes extended applause that may have occurred when the nominee was introduced, but before the prepared remarks began. Time ended when the nominee spoke the last word.

Word counts exclude any annotations, and exclude any audience reaction that may be included in the transcript. Microsoft Word was used to compute word counts.

Citation: Gerhard Peters. "Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches and Letters." The American Presidency Project. Ed. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California. 1999-2023. Available from the World Wide Web: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-documents-archive....