To boost his adopted city's national stature, Jones secured the first national political convention in the South since the Civil War with a personal check for $200,000 and a promise to build a new convention hall. Sam Houston Hall at 801 Bagby (replaced in 1937 by Sam Houston Coliseum and Houston Music Hall, themselves replaced in 2002 by the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts) may have been the venue for the speeches and the ballots, but the Rice Hotel was the event's social mecca. | Source: Amazon.comDownload Original File
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"Democratic National Convention (1928)" appears in: The Rice Building
