Politics

U.S. Political Conventions Have Been Weird From The Start

Origin

William Wirt was a noted trial lawyer, a bestselling author, and the nominee of the nation’s first political convention, in 1831. And then the story gets really strange.

Gil Troy
Gil Troy
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