Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection, 1956

Presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson, requested that the national convention select his vice presidential running mate. US Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee was chosen on the second ballot, over US Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.

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United States vice presidential candidate selection
Democratic	1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1984 1988 1992 2000 2004 2008 2016
Republican	1944 1948 1952 1960 1964 1968 1973* 1974* 1976 1980 1988 1996 2000 2008 2012 2016
Others	Dixiecrat 1948 American Independent 1968 Independent 1980 Independent 1992 Reform 1996
*Intra-term (25th Amendment) selection List of Democratic National Conventions List of Republican National Conventions