The Republican National Convention (RNC) will be held in Cleveland July 18-21. The 41st RNC will cost about $60 million to produce. The first gathering was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1856.
Previous Republican National Conventions
9
FILE - Sen. Joseph McCarthy (left, on rostrum) addresses the Republican convention on July 9, 1952, defending his tactics in opposing communism against charges of those who said he was too rough.
10
FILE - The speaker's rostrum as GOP national committee chairman Leonard Hall called the Republican National Convention to order in San Francisco's Cow Palace, Aug. 20, 1956. President Dwight Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon were renominated.
11
FILE - Vice President Richard Nixon demonstration and demonstrators at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Ill., July 1960.
12
FILE - A demonstration for Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater is held on the final night of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, July 16, 1964. Goldwater and William Miller were nominated as presidential and vice presidential candidates, resp