The 1840 Democratic National Convention was held in Baltimore.
 The Democrats nominated President Martin Van Buren for reelection in 1840 in spite of his unpopularity following the Panic of 1837.
 Vice President Richard M. Johnson was not retained on the ticket, as he was largely seen as a liability in the 1836 election and had focused much of his time as vice president on his own economic affairs.
 Former President Andrew Jackson backed James K. Polk for the position of vice president, but Van Buren supported his vice president's renomination.
 The convention ultimately decided not to nominate a running mate for Van Buren.
 As a result, Van Buren became the only major party presidential nominee since the passage of the 12th Amendment to seek election without a running mate.
The United States presidential election of 1996 was the 53rd quadrennial presidential election.
 It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1996.
 The Democratic national ticket was led by incumbent President Bill Clinton, and his running mate, incumbent Vice President Al Gore.
 The Republican nominee for President was Bob Dole, the former Republican Leader of the United States Senate and long-time Senator from Kansas who was previously the vice-presidential running mate of President Gerald Ford in 1976, following Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's retirement from politics that year.
 Dole's running mate for Vice President was Jack Kemp, a former NFL football player and the Housing Secretary under George H. W. Bush.
 Businessman Ross Perot ran as candidate for the Reform Party with economist Pat Choate as his running mate; he received less media attention and was excluded from the presidential debates and, while still obtaining substantial results for a third-party candidate, by U.S. standards, did not renew his success of the 1992 election.
 Turnout was registered at 49.0%, the lowest for a presidential election since 1924.
Lynn Curtis Swann (born March 7, 1952) is the athletic director at the University of Southern California and a former American football player, broadcaster, and politician who was the chairman of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition from 2002 to 2005.
 In 2006, he was the Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania.
 During his football career, he was a wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL).
James R. Matthews is an American politician from the state of Pennsylvania, and is a member of the Republican Party.
 He is a former member of the Board of Commissioners of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and was the unsuccessful 2006 Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania as Lynn Swann's running mate.
The 1992 vice-presidential debate was part of the 1992 presidential election.
 The participants were Democratic nominee, Bill Clinton's running mate, U.S. Senator Al Gore from Tennessee; Ross Perot's running mate, retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale; and Republican candidate, incumbent Vice President Dan Quayle.
 It was held on Tuesday, October 13, 1992.
Gary Barta (born September 4, 1963) is the current athletic director at the University of Iowa.
 He succeeded Bob Bowlsby on August 1, 2006, when Bowlsby stepped down after 15 years as Iowa's athletic director to take the same position at Stanford University.
 Before coming to Iowa, Barta was the athletic director at the University of Wyoming from 2003 to 2006.
 In early 2005, Barta was a finalist for the Athletic Director position at Arizona State University.
 Prior to serving as the athletic director at Wyoming, Barta served as an administrator in the athletic departments at the University of Washington, and Northern Iowa University.
Todd Stansbury is a Canadian–American university sports administrator and former college athlete.
 Stansbury is currently the athletic director for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets sports program at Georgia Tech.
 He previously served as executive associate athletic director at Oregon State, assistant athletic director for academics at Georgia Tech, associate athletic director at the University of Houston, and athletic director at East Tennessee State University, the University of Central Florida, and Georgia Tech.
William J. Maguire (June 12, 1916 – October 2, 1997) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1976 to 1982.
 He served as Mayor of Clark, New Jersey and as a Union County Freeholder.
 Maguire was elected to the State Assembly in 1975, running with future Governor Donald DiFrancesco; they defeated incumbent Democrat Betty Wilson and her running mate, William A. Wolf, the Rahway Democratic Municipal Chairman.
 He was re-elected in 1977.
 Following the resignation of State Senator Peter J. McDonough in 1979, Maguire ran for the State Senate, but lost a vote of a Republican convention to DiFrancesco.
 He was re-elected to the Assembly, with future Congressman Bob Franks as his running mate.
 Maguire's political career came to an end in 1981, when redistricting traded Democratic towns in Union County for solid Republican towns in Essex County.
 DiFrancesco was facing a primary challenge from an Essex County Republican; to secure the Essex organization line in a district where Republican primary election voters were evenly split between Essex and Union, DiFrancesco agreed to put an Essex Republican on his ticket.
 John Renna, the Essex Republican Chairman, preferred that Franks (who had worked on Renna's 1977 bid for County Chairman), get the second Assembly seat.
 Maguire, replaced by Millburn Mayor Maureen Ogden, did not run for re-election.
Joel Nielsen is an American sports administrator originally from Latimer, Iowa.
 Since 2010 he has served as the athletic director for Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
 Prior to his appointment at Kent State, he served as athletic director at the University of South Dakota from 2003 to 2010 and at Colorado College from 2001 to 2003.
 He also served as associate athletic director at Wake Forest University from 1993 to 2001 and assistant athletic director at Illinois State University from 1992 to 1993.
 From 1990 to 1991 he was athletic development assistant at Northern Illinois University.
 He is an alumnus of Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he played football and baseball and earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees.
Larry Leckonby is a college sports administrator, currently serving as athletic director at Catawba College.
 He has previously served as an assistant athletic director at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Boston University, Old Dominion University, and Boston College.
 He served as senior associate athletic director at the University of Houston prior to serving as senior associate athletic director at the University of Maryland, College Park, working as the chief financial officer of that school's athletic department.
 He was athletic director at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina from 2008 through 2014.
 Leckonby's tenure at The Citadel ended in the summer of 2014, when he accepted the same position at Catawba.

Question: In 2006 James R. Matthews was the running mate of a man that was once the athletic director at what university?
Answer: University of Southern California