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McHenry County
Illinois

McHenry County Political Parties

Democratic Party chairs in McHenry County (incomplete!): Donald Desmond, 1950

Republican Party chairs in McHenry County (incomplete!): William Lefew, 2002

McHenry County Delegates
to National Party Conventions

Democratic National Conventions:
	1860, Charleston and Baltimore: William M. Jackson
	1912, Baltimore: John C. Donnelly
	1916, St. Louis: John C. Donnelly
	1924, New York: John L. McCabe
	1928, Houston: John R. McCabe
	1936, Philadelphia: Walter Kelley
	1944, Chicago: Thomas P. Higgins
	1948, Philadelphia: Thomas P. Higgins — John Murphy
	1952, Chicago: Gladys Bower
	1956, Chicago: William J. Bolger — Thomas P. Higgins
	1960, Los Angeles: William J. Bolger — William Patrick Gearty
	1964, Atlantic City: William J. Bolger
	1972, Miami Beach: William J. Bolger — Thomas J. Hanahan — Barbara H. Simpson — Richard R. Zukowski
	1980, New York: Elyse Kovac Roberts — Lorens P. Tronet
	2004, Boston: Kathleen Bergan Schmidt
	2008, Denver: Jack Franks
Republican National Conventions:
	1868, Chicago: Merritt L. Joslyn
	1880, Chicago: Lot B. Smith
	1888, Chicago: G. W. Eldredge
	1896, St. Louis: H. D. Crum
	1904, Chicago: W. E. Hall
	1908, Chicago: A. A. Crissey
	1912, Chicago: B. C. Getzelman
	1916, Chicago: Michael F. Walsh
	1920, Chicago: William E. Wire
	1924, Cleveland: George E. Sullivan
	1928, Kansas City: Michael F. Walsh
	1932, Chicago: Charles F. Renich — Edward D. Shurtleff
	1936, Cleveland: Frank J. Green
	1940, Philadelphia: T. Merle Paul
	1944, Chicago: David R. Joslyn
	1948, Philadelphia: Henry L. Cowlin
	1952, Chicago: Henry L. Cowlin — Vernon W. Kays
	1960, Chicago: David R. Joslyn
	1964, San Francisco: Theodore Wickman
	1972, Miami Beach: Roland A. Herrman
	2004, New York: Rick Mack — Gilbert Ruiz
	2008, St. Paul: William Henniger — John McCrory — Nina Stephenson

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