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unusual facts about Independent Republican


Simeon B. Chittenden

Chittenden was elected as an Independent Republican to the Forty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Stewart L. Woodford; he was reelected as an Independent Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses and served from November 3, 1874 to March 3, 1881.


Joanne Benson

An Independent Republican, she was elected on the gubernatorial ticket with Governor Arne Carlson, competing for the party endorsement with Allen Quist and Doug McFarland, and later in the election against John Marty.

Samuel Fenton Cary

In 1867, Cary was elected to the Fortieth Congress as an Independent Republican to represent Ohio's second district, taking seat November 21, 1867.

Solomon L. Hoge

Running on the Republican ticket with Franklin J. Moses, Jr. for governor in 1872, Hoge won the race for comptroller general against the Independent Republican candidate J. Scott Murray of Anderson.


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Art Seaberg

An attorney by profession, he represented District 38B in Dakota County as an Independent-Republican.

George Shiras III

Shiras was elected as an Independent Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress.

Guilford Wiley Wells

Wells was elected as an Independent Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877).

Henry Wells Tracy

Tracy was elected as an Independent Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

Independent Party of Connecticut

In the 1930s, an Independent-Republican party was formed by Professor Albert Levitt of Redding, CT and Irving Fisher, a Yale economist.

James Tracy Hale

Hale was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and as an Independent Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

James W. Brown

Brown was elected as an Independent Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress.

John Franklin Swift

Along with Newton Booth, Swift formed an Independent Republican party whose platform was dominated by an anti-monopoly plank.

Jon Grunseth

Jon Grunseth (born 1945) was a Minnesota businessman and politician and the 1990 Independent-Republican nominee for Governor of Minnesota.

Grunseth, the Ecolab Vice President of Public Affairs, earned the Independent-Republican Party's endorsement at their state convention, defeating moderate State Auditor Arne Carlson.

Lewis Selye

Selye was elected as an Independent Republican to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867–March 3, 1869).

Peter A. Porter

In 1907, he was elected as an Independent Republican to the 60th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1907, to March 3, 1909.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1872

Alonzo J. Ransier was nominated by the Republicans and defeated Independent Republican challenger William Gurney in the general election.