Complex sentence: But FDR insisted that without Wallace on the ticket he would decline renomination, and when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt came to Chicago to vouch for Wallace, he won the vice-presidential nomination with 626 votes to 329 for House Speaker William B. Bankhead of Alabama.
Split into simpler sentences: But FDR insisted that without Wallace on the ticket he would decline renomination. Wallace won the vice-presidential nomination with 626 votes, to 329 for House Speaker William B. Bankhead of Alabama.