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William Gibbs McAdoo (Wilson's son-in-law and former Treasury Secretary) was the strongest candidate, Wilson blocked his nomination in hopes a deadlocked convention would demand that he run for a third term, even though he was seriously ill, physically immobile, and in seclusion at the time. The Democrats instead nominated Ohio Governor
James M. Cox as their presidential candidate and 38-year-old Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, a fifth cousin of the late president Theodore Roosevelt, for vice-president. Fourteen names were placed in nomination. Early favorites for the nomination had included McAdoo and Attorney General
Alexander Mitchell Palmer. Others placed in nomination included New York Governor
Al Smith, United Kingdom Ambassador
John W. Davis, New Jersey Governor
Edward I. Edwards, and Oklahoma Senator
Robert Latham Owen. History was made at the convention when
Laura Clay, a delegate from
Kentucky and co-founder of the
Kentucky Equal Rights Association and the Democratic Women's Club of Kentucky, became the first woman to have her name placed into nomination for president at the convention of a major political party. She was also the first woman to receive a convention delegation's vote for the presidency. == Balloting ==