1972 Republican National Convention

The 1972 Republican National Convention was held from August 21 to August 23, 1972, at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida. It nominated President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew for reelection. The convention was chaired by House minority leader and future Nixon successor Gerald Ford of Michigan. It was the fifth time that Nixon had been nominated on the Republican ticket for vice president (1952 United States presidential election and 1956 United States presidential election) or president (1960 United States presidential election and 1968 United States presidential election). Nixon's five appearances on his party's ticket matched the major-party American standard of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat who had been nominated for vice president once (in the 1920 United States presidential election) and president four times (in the 1932 United States presidential election, the 1936 United States presidential election, the 1940 United States presidential election and the 1944 United States presidential election). Nixon was the first Republican to be nominated three times for president.

The convention was the first Republican convention scheduled for only three days since 1944, joining the 2012 Democratic National Convention as the only conventions in modern convention history to be scheduled for three days.