"led by Thaddeus Stevens. Frémont was nominated for president overwhelmingly on the formal ballot, and William L. Dayton was nominated for vice-president over Abraham Lincoln. 1856 Republican National Convention The 1856 Republican National Convention, also known as the first Republican National Convention, met from June 17 to June 19, 1856, at the Musical Fund Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The gathering nominated John C. Frémont, formerly a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and Senator from California, and former Senator William Dayton of New Jersey for President and Vice President. Frémont and Dayton were the new party's standard-bearers in"
"been a total of 19 Republican Presidents, the most from any one party. The first was 16th President Abraham Lincoln, who served from 1861 until his assassination in 1865; the most recent being the 45th and current president Donald Trump, who took the oath of office on January 20, 2017. However, the Republicans have lost the popular vote in six out of the last seven Presidential elections, as its traditional demographic is reducing as a proportion of the US population. , the Republican Party is the primary party in power in the United States, holding the presidency (Donald Trump), majorities"
"first Republican president in 1860. During the Third Party System, the Republican Party was the dominant political faction, but the Democrats held a strong, loyal coalition in the Solid South. During the Fourth Party System, the Republicans remained the dominant Presidential party, although Democrats Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson were both elected to two terms. In 1932, at the onset of the Fifth Party System, Democrats took firm control of national politics with the landslide victories of Franklin D. Roosevelt in four consecutive elections. Other than the two terms of Republican Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, Democrats retained firm"
"he was delirious. He soon fell into an unconscious stuper and died on October 19 at the age of seventy-two. The Republican Party was begun in the early 1850s by anti-slavery activists. Pardee Butler was one of the organizers of the Republican Party in Kansas in May and June 1856. In 1856 the Republicans became a national party when John C. Fremont was nominated for President. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican president. There is a family story about Pardee Butler and Abraham Lincoln that is related by Heywood Broun in one of his ""It Seems to Me"""
"party, was held on March 20, 1854 in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. The name was partly chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party. The first official party convention was held on July 6, 1854 in Jackson, Michigan. By 1858, the Republicans dominated nearly all Northern states. The Republican Party first came to power in the elections of 1860 when it won control of both houses of Congress and its candidate, Abraham Lincoln, was elected President. It oversaw the preserving of the Union, the end of slavery and the provision of equal rights to all men in the"
"party when John C. Fremont was nominated for president of the United States under the ""Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men, Fremont"" slogan. Even though they were considered a ""third party"" because the Democrats and Whigs represented the two-party system at the time, Fremont received 33 percent of the vote. Four years later, Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican to win the White House. Republicans have been elected to the governorship of Michigan in 27 of 48 gubernatorial elections. The first was Kingsley Bingham in 1855 and the most recent is Rick Snyder, who was elected in 2010,"
"Wolcott, Republican (1896-1900) Winthrop Murray Crane, Republican (1900-1903) Curtis Guild, Jr., Republican (1906-1909) Eben Sumner Draper, Republican (1909-1911) Samuel Walker McCall, Republican (1916-1919) Calvin Coolidge, Republican (1919-1921) Channing Harris Cox, Republican (1921-1925) Frank G. Allen, Republican (1929-1931) Joseph Buell Ely, Democrat (1931-1935) Presidents of Harvard University Josiah Quincy (1829-1846) Edward Everett (1846-1849) Jared Sparks (1849-1853) Presidents of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Willian Barton Rogers (1862-1870) Francis Amasa Walker (1881-1897) Karl Taylor Compton (1930-1948) James Rhyne Killian, Jr. (1948-1959) Men of Letters, Authors, Poets, Scholars, etc. Charles Francis Adams, Jr. – Author and Historian Louis Agassiz - Biologist, Geologist and Natural"
"Republicans"" opposed the nationalism that grew popular after 1815 as they were stunned when party leaders started a Second Bank of the United States in 1816. The first official Republican Congressional Caucus meeting took place at Marache's boarding house on May 11, 1800 in Philadelphia. The January 26, 1799 letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to Elbridge Gerry became the party's platform. In the Senate chamber on February 25, 1804, a ""Convention of Republican members of both houses of Congress"" met. Senator Stephen Bradley presided, a Committee on Presidential Electors was formed and it was resolved that Thomas Jefferson be nominated for"
"in Pittsburgh on February 22–23, 1856. At this convention, the Republican Party was formally organized on a national basis, and the first Republican National Committee was elected. The first Republican National Convention to nominate a presidential candidate convened from June 17–19, 1856 at the Musical Fund Hall in Philadelphia. The 1860 convention nominated the first successful GOP presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois and nominated Hanibal Hamlin of Maine for Vice President. The 1864 event, with the American Civil War raging, was branded as the ""National Union Convention"" as it included Democrats who remained loyal to the Union and nominated"
"president in December 1923. The Republican Convention was held on June 10–12, 1924, in Cleveland, Ohio; Coolidge was nominated on the first ballot. Coolidge's nomination made him the second unelected president to win his party's nomination for another term, after Theodore Roosevelt. Prior to the convention, Coolidge courted progressive Senator William Borah to join the ticket, but Borah refused to relinquish his Senate seat. Republicans then nominated Lowden for vice president on the second ballot, but he declined the nomination. Former Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes was nominated on the third ballot, and Dawes agreed to be placed on the"
"last schooner was launched at Exeter. In 1840, the Boston & Maine Railroad entered the town. According to former governor Hugh Gregg, the United States Republican Party was born in Exeter on October 12, 1853, at the Squamscott Hotel at a secret meeting of Amos Tuck with other abolitionists. At this meeting, Tuck proposed forming a new political party to be called Republican. Upon learning of Tuck's meeting, in December 1853, Horace Greeley said ""I think 'Republican' would be the best name, it will sound both Jeffersonian and Madisonian, and for that reason will take well."" Abraham Lincoln, the first"
"Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–1889 and 1893–1897). He won the popular vote for three presidential elections—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was one of two Democrats (with Woodrow Wilson) to be elected president during the era of Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933. Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opposed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism, and"
"in the range of 3,000. National Republican (newspaper) The National Republican (1860–1888) was an American newspaper published in Washington, D.C. The paper was founded in November 1860 upon the election of Abraham Lincoln as the first United States President from the Republican Party. It was started by newspaperman William J. Murtagh, who had been with the Abolitionist ""National Era"", with investment from Hanscom and Weston, to be a pro-Lincoln administration paper. Though most associated with Murtagh, the paper's additional founders were Lewis Clephane, Martin Buell, and William Blanchard. Clephane later wrote that the paper was started ""as a necessity, to"
"central idea."" He became chairman of the first state central committee of the Prohibition party of Wisconsin. He died at 85, January 13, 1903, in Santa Monica, California. Alvan E. Bovay Major Alvan Earle Bovay (July 12, 1818 – January 13, 1903) was a founder of the United States Republican Party. He was born in Adams, New York. He later attended Norwich University, in the mountains of Vermont, where he also received military training. After he finished his studies, he taught mathematics and Languages at several eastern institutions including academies at Oswego and Glens Falls and the military college at"
"Sumner, Free Soil, Liberal Republican, Republican (1851-1874) Edward Everett, Whig (1853-1854) Henry Wilson, Republican (1855-1873) George Frisbie Hoar, Republican (1877-1904) Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican (1893-1924) Winthrop Murray Crane, Republican (1904-1913) Frederick Huntington Gillett, Republican (1925-1931) Sinclair Weeks, Republican (1944) United States Supreme Court Horace Gray (1881-1902) Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1916-1939) Governors of Massachusetts Edward Everett, Whig (1836-1846) Emory Washburn, Whig (1854-1855) John Albion Andrew, Republican (1861-1866) Alexander Hamilton Bullock, Republican (1866-1869) William Claflin, Republican (1869-1872) William Gaston, Democrat (1875-1876) Alexander Hamilton Rice, Republican (1876-1879) John Davis Long, Republican (1880-1883) Benjamin Franklin Butler, Democrat (1883-1884) William Eustis Russell, Democrat (1891-1894) Roger"
"with the issue of 1863 (displayed in First appearances) above). At that time, as aforesaid, he had already appeared on two different Confederate 2¢ stamps. Andrew Jackson appears on the following commemorative issues: Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Before his presidency, he served as the eighth Vice President (1833–1837) and the 10th Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson. Van Buren was the first U.S. President to be born an American citizen. William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the"
"National Republican (newspaper) The National Republican (1860–1888) was an American newspaper published in Washington, D.C. The paper was founded in November 1860 upon the election of Abraham Lincoln as the first United States President from the Republican Party. It was started by newspaperman William J. Murtagh, who had been with the Abolitionist ""National Era"", with investment from Hanscom and Weston, to be a pro-Lincoln administration paper. Though most associated with Murtagh, the paper's additional founders were Lewis Clephane, Martin Buell, and William Blanchard. Clephane later wrote that the paper was started ""as a necessity, to represent the Republican Party of"
"John C. Frémont John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, when he led five expeditions into the American West, that era's penny press and admiring historians accorded Frémont the sobriquet ""The Pathfinder"". During the Mexican–American War, Frémont, a major in the U.S. Army, took control of California from the California Republic in 1846. Frémont was convicted in court-martial for mutiny and insubordination over a conflict of who"
"the American people. 1868 Republican National Convention The 1868 Republican National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held in Crosby's Opera House, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on May 20 to May 21, 1868. Commanding General of the U.S. Army Ulysses S. Grant was the unanimous choice of the Republicans for President. At the convention he was unopposed and chosen by acclamation on the first ballot. For Vice-President the delegates chose the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Schuyler Colfax, who was Grant's choice. In Grant's acceptance telegram he said ""Let us have peace"", which captured"
"to a single political party. He was first a Democrat, then became a Whig in the 1830s, was an ""out-and-out Native American party man"" the 1840s, and in the 1850s joined the newly founded Republican Party, for which he served as a presidential elector in 1856. In February 1860, president-elect Abraham Lincoln, on his way to Washington, D.C., visited the Manhattan home of Grinnell's daughter, whose father had invited many of New York City's most prominent businessmen to meet the first Republican president. Grinnell subsequently wrote Lincoln with introductions for others, becoming something of a conduit of political power, if"
"1952 Republican Party presidential primaries The 1952 Republican presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 1952 U.S. presidential election. Former U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1952 Republican National Convention held from July 7 to July 11, 1952, in Chicago, Illinois. The fight for the 1952 Republican nomination was largely between Eisenhower, who became the candidate of the party's liberal eastern establishment, and Senator Robert A. Taft"
"event features notable national Republicans, Senators, Governors, and presidential candidates. The Republican Party was born in the early 1850s by anti-slavery activists and individuals who believed that government should grant western lands to settlers free of charge. The first official Republican meeting took place on July 6, 1854 in Jackson, Michigan with David S. Walbridge serving as chairman. The name ""Republican"" was chosen because it alluded to equality and reminded individuals of Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party. At the Jackson convention, the new party adopted a platform and nominated candidates for office in Michigan. In 1856, the Republicans became a national"
"was the first Republican president, elected in 1860. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Second only to the number of times George Washington has been featured on the face of U.S. postage, Lincoln's appearances on U.S. postage are more numerous than those of all the remaining presidents. His first appearance on U.S. postage came on or near the one-year anniversary of his death. The U.S. Post Office issued a series of four commemorative stamps during 1958 and 1959 in honor of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth"
"Roosevelt Republican Roosevelt Republican is a term used in discussions about politics of the United States to describe people with beliefs reminiscent of American President Theodore Roosevelt, a politician who spent much of his career as a Republican. Roosevelt implemented a wide variety of various ideas during his tenure as President from September 14, 1901 to March 4, 1909. In terms of specific policies, being a ""Roosevelt Republican"" has been described as supporting the conservation movement and having sympathies for environmentalist measures aimed at protecting natural landscapes. This is said to entail an emphasis on hunting and fishing along with"
"Were often used promote secession in 1860 as a legal, constitutional escape valve for the South. Brian Farmer says, ""Perhaps no figure better exemplifies the attitudes of Southern conservatism in the antebellum period than John C. Calhoun of South Carolina."" His ideas were revived by hard-core Southern conservatives in the 20th century. According to Peter Viereck, ""this more extreme, very regional Calhoun conservatism still dominates much of the American South in the 1970s."" Abraham Lincoln was the first president elected by the newly formed Republican Party, and Lincoln has been an iconic figure for American politicians of both parties. According"
"had been in declining health caused by multiple sclerosis, which was initially diagnosed when Bush was thirty-seven. He died at his Baton Rouge home of cardiovascular disease at the age of seventy-six. Bush was survived by his wife, the former Julia Taulman (born May 25, 1934); three daughters, a son, ten grandchildren, and a sister, Jo Bush Chandler. A funeral mass was said at St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church in Baton Rouge, and he was entombed at Greenoaks Memorial Park Mausoleum. Bryan Bush (politician) Bryan Edward Bush Jr. (April 14, 1934 – December 4, 2010), was the first Republican of"
"Texas, however, William A. Wheeler was unanimously nominated on the first ballot by 366 majority votes. William Kellogg withdrew Jewell's name from the ballot after the votes cast were unanimously for Wheeler. The state of Connecticut named Jewell on the 1876 Republican National Committee who elected Zachariah Chandler as chairman. In 1879 Jewell accepted the appointment of National Chairman of the Republican Party having served to 1880. During the Presidential election of 1880, Jewell's energetic approach to politics resulted in large part to the election of Republican candidate James A. Garfield to the office of President of the United States."
"Hannibal Hamlin Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809July 4, 1891) was an American attorney and politician from the state of Maine. In a public service career that spanned over 50 years, he is most notable for having served as the 15th Vice President of the United States. The first Republican to hold the office, Hamlin served from 1861 to 1865. He is considered among the most influential politicians to have come from Maine. A native of Paris, Maine (part of Massachusetts until 1820), Hamlin managed his father's farm before becoming a newspaper editor. He studied law, was admitted to the bar"
"the Republican Party upon its organization in 1855, and was a presidential elector in 1860, voting for Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Robertson was elected as a Republican to the 40th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1869. He was again a member of the State Senate from 1872 to 1881, sitting in the 95th, 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, 101st, 102nd (all eight 9th D.), 103rd and 104th New York State Legislatures (both 12th D.). In 1874, after a constitutional amendment created it as a standing office, he was chosen President pro tempore"
"if he alienated McCarthy supporters, he deleted this defense from later versions of his speech. The deletion was discovered by William H. Laurence, a reporter for ""The New York Times,"" and featured on its front page the next day. Eisenhower was widely criticized for giving up his personal convictions, and the incident became the low point of his campaign. With his victory in the 1952 presidential race, Dwight Eisenhower became the first Republican president in 20 years. The Republican party also held a majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate. After being elected president, Eisenhower made it clear"
"Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ( ; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century. His face is depicted on Mount Rushmore, alongside those"
"Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (, ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. As a"
"Republicans once he returned. McKinley was elected president with a comfortable majority in the Electoral College. On March 4, 1897, the same day William McKinley became president, Joseph Foraker was sworn in as senator from Ohio. The new legislator was escorted to the bar of the Senate by Sherman; his swearing-in helped cement a modest Republican majority. Foraker continued his private legal work, which was not unusual at the time as many senators maintained business interests. Wealthy through his law practice, Foraker did not stand out in that regard either, as the ""rich man's club"" of the Senate of that"