For democrats, Republicans, and several others, a candidate needs to gain the vote of a majority of his party's convention delegates.
However, each party is free, within the election laws, to apply its own method for determining its nominee.
US presidents are nominated by a political party through primary elections and the party convention. In order to appear on the ballot petitions have to be filed . The parties take care of this task. The two major parties get their candidates on the ballots in all the states. Other parties get candidates on the ballot from time to time, sometimes only in a few states, sometimes nationally. Sometimes an individual forms his own party and gets on the ballot and may influence the election by "stealing" votes from one of the major candidates.
For high ranking cabinet positions : people with some real ability and whom he respects and trusts .
For lower ranking cabinet posts and ambassadors good Democratic party people who made substantial contributions to his election campaign and seem to have some qualifications for their particular appointment. He also strives for an ethnic balance and some female appointees. He may even nominate a few Republicans in order to claim he is bipartisan.
For supreme court justices and federal judges: judges who are have a liberal record on the bench but are not so radical that they can never be confirmed .
Presidents are not nominated, but presidential candidates are. Presidential candidates are nominated by their parties' conventions; this has been standard practice since 1832.
After Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973, Nixon nominated Gerald Ford to replace him, as required by the 25th Amendment, Section 2. After President Nixon resigned in 1974, Gerald Ford became President, satisfying Section 1 of the 25th Amendment.
Bill Clinton, a Democratic President, nominated Justice Breyer in 1994. US Supreme Court justices are nominated by Presidents, not by political parties (although the President belongs to a political party).
President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated former NAACP Legal Defense fund lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the US Supreme Court in 1967.
A republic is a government where the people have elected or nominated a president. The people as well as the president have power together.
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The Democratic Party nominated Grover Cleveland for president
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Congress nominated George Washington as the first President of the United States of America.
In February 2009,president Obama nominated Gary Locke,the former governor of Washington State,for secretary of commerce.A few months later,the president nominated Jon Huntsman for ambassador to China.In May,president Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court judge.In June,the president nominated John M.McHugh for secretary of the army.
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Picked individually by the candidates for president
Julius Rosenberg was on death row in 1952. He was not nominated for President by any legal party.
John Adams nominated George Washington as president from the body of Congress at the Constitutional Convention.The Electoral College
On March 3,president Obama nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell for OMB director.On March 4,the president nominated Ernest Moniz for secretary of energy and Gina McCarthy for administrator of the EPA.On March 13,president Obama nominated Deborah Jones for ambassador to Libya.On March 18,the president nominated Tom Perez for secretary of labor.
He was nominated the Democratic Convention of June, 1852 in Baltimore.
Usually they are senators or governors who are often nominated. The Vice President is 99% nominated with no doubt, except if they don't want to.
On January 7,president Obama nominated Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense and John Brennan for director of the CIA.On January 10,the president nominated Jack Lew for secretary of the treasury.On January 25,president Obama nominated Denis McDonough for chief of staff.