The last Cleveland convention is a museum piece, on display this week
CLEVELAND — Need a break from the speakers and hubub of the GOP convention? Head to The Cleveland Museum of Art and look at what the 1936 Republican convention was like (it looks pretty wild).
That was the last time the city hosted a political convention of any kind.
The drawing of the 1936 convention is by Thomas Hart Benton and is displayed in the museum’s East Wing, which is open every day (except Monday) — and it's free!
It may not be the sweetest memory for Republicans however: That convention nominated Kansas governor Alf Landon, who went on the be obliterated by incumbent Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Landon captured only eight electoral votes to Roosevelt's 523, the most lopsided result in U.S. history.
(For the history buffs out there, take our quiz on GOP conventions of years' past.)