1984 Democratic National Convention - wikipedia 1984 Democratic National Convention 1984 Democratic National Convention 1984 presidential election Nominees Mondale and Ferraro Convention Date ( s ) July 16 -- 19, 1984 City San Francisco, California Venue Moscone Center Keynote speaker Mario Cuomo Candidates Presidential nominee Walter Mondale of Minnesota Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro of New York `` 1980 1988 '' The Moscone Center was the site of the 1984 Democratic National Convention The 1984 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California from July 16 to July 19, 1984, to select candidates for the 1984 United States presidential election. Former Vice President Walter Mondale was nominated for President and Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York was nominated for Vice President. Ferraro became the first woman to be nominated by either major party for the Presidency or Vice-Presidency. In another first, the 1984 Democratic Convention was chaired by the female governor of Kentucky, Martha Layne Collins. The Democratic National Committee Chairman at the time, Charles T. Manatt, led the convention. Contents 1 Events of the Convention 2 Voting 2.1 President 2.2 Vice-President 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Events of the Convention Walter Mondale was nominated for President and Geraldine Ferraro was nominated for Vice President. New York Governor Mario Cuomo gave a well - received keynote speech. Mondale 's major rivals for the presidential nomination, Senator Gary Hart and Rev. Jesse Jackson, also gave speeches. Jackson 's speech referred to the nation as a `` quilt '' with places for `` ( t ) he white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the business person, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay, and the disabled ''. It was the first time anyone mentioned lesbians and gays in a national convention address. Jackson also attempted to move the party 's platform farther to the left at the Convention, but without much success. He did succeed in one instance, concerning affirmative action. `` AIDS poster boy '' Bobbi Campbell gave a speech at the National March for Lesbian and Gay Rights, dying of AIDS complications a month later. Voting President The candidates for U.S. president earned the following numbers of delegates : Democratic National Convention presidential vote, 1984 Candidate Votes Percentage Walter Mondale 2,191 ( 56.41 % ) Gary Hart 1,200 ( 30.92 % ) Jesse Jackson 465 ( 12.00 % ) Thomas Eagleton 18 ( 0.46 % ) George McGovern ( 0.10 % ) John Glenn ( 0.05 % ) Joe Biden ( 0.03 % ) Martha Kirkland ( 0.03 % ) Totals 3,882 100.00 % Jesse Jackson unsuccessfully called for the suspension of the party 's electoral rules to give him a number of delegates closer to the 20 % average share of the vote he garnered during the primaries. The system tended to punish shallow showings as yielding no delegates at all, hence Jackson 's smaller delegate count than would be expected ( 12 % ). Vice-president Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by acclamation on a voice vote. She became the first woman to receive a major party nomination in the US. See also 1984 Democratic Presidential Primaries Rosalind Wiener Wyman, chair and chief executive officer of the convention 1983 Libertarian National Convention 1984 Republican National Convention United States presidential election, 1984 History of the United States Democratic Party List of Democratic National Conventions U.S. presidential nomination convention References Jump up ^ Ferraro, Geraldine ( 1986 ). Ferraro : My Story. New York : Bantam. ISBN 0 - 553 - 05110 - 5. Jump up ^ House, Ernest R. ( 24 July 1988 ). `` Jesse in 1984 : Whites Wept, Blacks Frowned ''. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 January 2018. Jump up ^ Reid, Joy - Ann ( 8 September 2015 ). Fracture : Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide ( Amazon Kindle ed. ). William Morrow. p. 50. ASIN B00FJ3A98G. ^ Jump up to : `` The Jackson Factor ''. The Economist. 1984 - 07 - 21. Retrieved 2008 - 08 - 28. Jump up ^ GLBT Historical Society ( July 15, 1984 ). Bobbi Campbell speech ( 1984 ). YouTube. Retrieved July 19, 2015. 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Question: who gave a speech to the democratic national convention in 1984
Answer: New York Governor Mario Cuomo; Mario Cuomo; New York Governor Mario Cuomo; Mario Cuomo