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6 unusual facts about Republican Party


Democratic-Republican Party

Many former members of the defunct Federalist Party, including Daniel Webster, joined the party.

In United States history, the Democratic-Republican Party, the Republican Party or the Jeffersonian Republicans was a political party organized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791-93, which opposed the Federalist Party and controlled the Presidency and Congress, and most states, from 1801 to 1825, during the First Party System.

J. Hale Sypher

He served four terms as a Republican, after having served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Public Credit Act of 1869

The act was signed on March 18, 1869, and was mainly supported by the Republican Party, notably Senator John Sherman.

Richard Bache

He was a spokesman for the Jeffersonian Republicans; he strenuously opposed George Washington, John Adams and the Federalist party.

The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat

The book is a ‘tell-all’ autobiography about how Crist left the Republican Party following his time as the Governor of Florida.


Abijah Mann, Jr.

Mann was elected as a Jacksonian to the 23rd and 24th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1833, to March 3, 1837.

Arnold Palacios

Arnold Indalecio Palacios (born August 22, 1955) is a Northern Mariana Islands politician and a member of the Republican Party.

August Busch III

Unlike his father Gussie Busch, August III has been a lifelong supporter of the Republican Party, and a friend, ally, and financial supporter to Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and President George W. Bush.

Ava Lowery

Ava Lowery is an American peace activist and documentary filmmaker from Alabama who has created over 100 Flash-based animations denouncing the Iraq War, former United States President George W. Bush, policies of the Republican Party and several individual Republican politicians.

Campbell P. White

White was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1829, to October 2, 1835, when he resigned before the 24th United States Congress met.

Charles Borland, Jr.

He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 17th United States Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Selah Tuthill, holding office from December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1823.

Columbus, Ohio mayoral election, 1999

Republican party incumbent mayor Gregory S. Lashutka retired from office after two consecutive terms in office.

Corbin Fisher

On November 19, 2009, Corbin Fisher offered a studio deal to Levi Johnston, father with Bristol Palin of Republican party politician Sarah Palin's grandchild.

Craig Schley

Craig Schley (born September 23, 1963) was a Democratic Party and Republican Party candidate for the United States House of Representatives for newly drawn 13th Congressional District of New York.

David H. Bieter

In 2003 Bieter was elected Boise mayor in a nonpartisan contest, defeating Republican Party activist Chuck Winder and Ada County Sheriff Vaughn Killeen.

David Woodcock

Woodcock was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 17th United States Congress, holding office from December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1823.

Draft Goldwater Committee

The Draft Goldwater Committee was the organization primarily responsible for engineering the nomination of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater for President of the United States on the 1964 Republican Party ticket.

Eric Garris

When Rothbard and his supporters began to feel that the Libertarian Party, through outfits such as the Cato Institute, was becoming too cozy with the Republican Party and its policies, they founded the "Libertarian Radical Caucus" which was led primarily by Garris and his most consistent collaborator Justin Raimondo.

Existence

For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

Federalist

During the 1790s and early 1800s, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party and opposed the Federalists over issues of how broadly (or narrowly) to apply the provisions of the new Constitution.

Frank B. Morse

After the death of Edith Nourse Rogers in September 1960, he was selected by the Republican Party to take her place on the ballot and was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress in November 1960.

Garland, Arkansas

A. Lynn Lowe, former chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas and the party's 1978 gubernatorial nominee against Bill Clinton, farms at Garland near the Red River.

George N. Stearns

He was a member of the Republican party and was an abolitionist, taking an active part in the celebrated Jerry Rescue case in Syracuse, although he always refused to serve in any public office.

Guy Padgett

He reportedly enjoyed great popularity among his constituents, including support from prominent Republican Party politicians such as Alan K. Simpson.

Harrison E. Havens

He was born in Franklin County, Ohio and was the Republican Party Representative from Missouri for the 4th District in the 42nd United States Congress between 1871 and 1873, and for the 6th District in the 43rd United States Congress from 1873 to 1875.

James Gillespie

He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1776 and served first in the North Carolina House of Commons (1779–1783), then in the North Carolina Senate (1784–1786), before being elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 4th and 5th U.S. Congresses (March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1799) and later to the 8th United States Congress (March 4, 1803 - January 11, 1805).

Joel Frost

Frost was elected as a Crawford Democratic-Republican to the 18th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1825.

John J. Morgan

Morgan was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 17th, and re-elected as a Jacksonian Democratic-Republican to the 18th United States Congress, holding office from December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1825.

Kenneth Lamar Holland

Holland's 1976 re-election was by a close (51% to 48%) margin over the Republican Party candidate, former Major League Baseball player Bobby Richardson.

Lemuel Jenkins

Jenkins was elected as a Crawford Democratic-Republican to the 18th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1825.

Lewis Williams

He was first elected to the North Carolina House of Commons in 1812, serving for a single term (1813-1814) before being elected to the 14th United States Congress as a (Jeffersonian) Republican in 1814.

Mary B. Wolf

In her second run for mayor, Wolf defeated incumbent Michael R. Rafferty for the Republican nomination for mayor despite Rafferty's being endorsed by the County Republican Party.

Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China

More recently, in 2003, Chinese-American Federal Bureau of Investigation source and Republican Party fundraiser Katrina Leung was arrested and accused of being a double agent for both the FBI and the Chinese government, although she was acquitted of charges of copying classified information, and convicted only of tax charges and of lying to the FBI.

Moses Hayden

Hayden was elected as an Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican to the 18th, and re-elected as an Adams man to the 19th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1827.

Nancy Palm

Nancy Palm is a longtime Republican Party activist, primarily known as the chairwoman of the Harris County, Texas Republican Party during the 1970s, and who also received one vote favoring her as a candidate for Vice President of the United States.

Nathan Bryan

In 1794, Bryan, a Republican, was elected to the 4th United States Congress and re-elected to the 5th U.S. Congress; he died in office on 4 June 1798 in Philadelphia, where he is buried.

New York's 25th congressional district election, 2008

The race featured Democratic Party nominee Dan Maffei, who narrowly lost to incumbent Jim Walsh for the same seat in 2006, Republican Party nominee Dale Sweetland, former Chairman of the Onondaga County Legislature, and Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins, Green Party founder and frequent political candidate.

Ogden L. Mills

He was to elected to the Republican Party, from the 67th, 68th and the 69th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1921 until March 3, 1927.

Pete Peterson

He defeated James W. Grant, a politician who grew unpopular after switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the middle of his second term.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 1960

The 1960 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 1960 U.S. presidential election.

Republican period

# Any of several periods in the United States where the Republican Party controlled the federal government, or within individual US states or local governments when Republicans controlled those governments.

Reunion Society of Vermont Officers

Among the earliest members who were prominent in government were Redfield Proctor and Wheelock G. Veazey, who used loyalty among Civil War veterans as a base of political support to attain prominence in the Republican Party.

Rowland Day

Day was elected as a Crawford Democratic-Republican to the 18th, and as a Jacksonian to the 23rd United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1825, and from March 4, 1833, to March 3, 1835.

Shelley Adler

After a single term, John Adler was defeated in 2010 by Jon Runyan, a member of the Republican party and a former football player.

Thomas C. McGrath, Jr.

In his first bid, for elective office, McGrath was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress, defeating four-term Republican Party incumbent Milton W. Glenn.

Thomas R. Ross

Ross was elected as a Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses and reelected as a Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1825).

Thomas T. Whittlesey

Whittlesey was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Zalmon Wildman.

United States gubernatorial elections, 1980

The Republican party had a net gain of four seats in this election which coincided with the election of Ronald Reagan and large Republican gains in the Senate.

United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1894

In the previous election, the Republican Party had not run any candidates in Florida, with the Democratic Party having been dominant in the state since 1884.

William Plumer, Jr.

Plumer was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1825).

William T. Major

He founded the First Christian Church (affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination) and built the city's first public meeting hall, Major's Hall, which hosted an early convention of the Illinois branch of the Republican Party and became best known as the site of "Lincoln's Lost Speech".

William W. Van Wyck

Van Wyck was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 17th and 18th United States Congresses, holding office from December 3, 1821, to March 4, 1825.

Ze'ev Chafets

After the first primaries of the 2010 U.S. election season, Chafets identified Rush Limbaugh as "the brains and the spirit behind" the Republican Party's "resurgence" in the wake of the 2008 election of President Barack Obama.


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Arne Carlson

In 1994, the delegates to the Minnesota Republican Party State Convention viewed Carlson as too liberal, and endorsed instead Allen Quist and Doug McFarland.

Ayotte

Kelly Ayotte (born 1968), junior United States Senator of New Hampshire and member of the Republican Party

Capstick

John H. Capstick (1856-1918), American Republican Party politician

Charles F. Howard

Additionally, he has also been recognized by various publications, including the Houston Chronicle for his efforts in securing funds for the expansion of U.S. Highway 59, which runs through Sugar Land, and by the Republican Party of Texas for Howard's strong recognition of the party's values.

Elgeyo-Marakwet County

The County Governor is Alex Tolgos, the Senator is Onesmus Kipchumba Murkomen, and County Women Representative is Susan Kipketer Chebet, all of the United Republican Party, an affiliate of the Jubilee Alliance.

Felix Grucci

In 2000, he was elected to Congress after Democratic incumbent Michael Forbes, who had switched from the Republican Party in 1999, was upset in the primary by his opponent, Regina Seltzer.

Francis Patterson

Francis F. Patterson, Jr. (1867–1935), American Republican Party politician

Frank Appleby

T. Frank Appleby (1864 – 1924), American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district

Frank Matthews

Frank A. Mathews, Jr. (1904–1964), American Republican Party politician from New Jersey

Fredrick McGhee

He was chosen to be a presidential elector by the Minnesota Republican party in the spring of 1892, but after protests by white Republicans, he was replaced before the start of the 1892 Republican National Convention, which was held in Minneapolis in June.

Friends of Israel Initiative

They include Republican Party former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, Forza Italia's former President of the Italian Senate Marcello Pera, former President of Czech Republic Václav Havel, Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo, and billionaire financier, Robert Agostinelli and British Conservative Party peer, former First Minister of Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble.

Gary A. Lee

He later relocated to Fort Myers, Florida, where he remained active in politics, including serving as Chairman of the Lee County Republican Party.

Gay Republicans

GOProud, a political organization supporting the Republican Party and LGBT rights

Log Cabin Republicans, a political organization supporting the Republican Party and LGBT rights

Greg McNeilly

In 2010, McNeilly was the General Consultant for the Michigan Republican Party to then Chairman Ronald Weiser.

Grover Cleveland Presidential campaign, 1888

The Republican Party nominated former U.S. Senator Benjamin Harrison (from the swing state of Indiana) to run against Cleveland in 1888 after 1884 Republican Presidential nominee James G. Blaine (who lost to Cleveland by a razor-thin margin) refused to run again and after several other candidates failed to win enough support.

History of Montana

Though historically a swing state politically, since the 1988 election, the state tended toward Republican party domination until 2004, when the election of Democratic governor and a return of the legislature to divided party rule temporarily moved the state back into the swing status, solidified by the election of Senator Jon Tester in 2006.

Irreconcilables

The Republican Party controlled the United States Senate after the election of 1918, but the Senators were divided into multiple positions on the Versailles question.

James David Santini

In 1986, he switched to the Republican Party and ran for the Senate seat vacated by the retiring Paul Laxalt.

James Greenwood

James C. Greenwood (born 1951), known as Jim, American politician in the Republican Party

James S. Sherman

At a time when the Republican party was divided over protective tariffs, Sherman sided with McKinley and the conservative branch, defending the gold standard against the potentially inflationary 'free silver'.

John Fort

John Franklin Fort (1852–1920), American Republican Party politician, Governor of New Jersey 1908–1911

John J. Gilligan

Gilligan narrowly lost his re-election bid to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966 to Republican Robert Taft Jr. after the Republican-controlled Ohio General Assembly redrew his district to favor the Republican Party.

Joseph Cannon

Joseph A. Cannon (born 1949), former chairman of the Utah Republican Party and former chairman of Geneva Steel

Kate Witek

After running as the Lt. Governor candidate with unsuccessful Governor candidate Congressman Dr. Tom Osborne, Republican Witek decided to switch parties in August 2006, citing concerns about a Republican Party that, in her own words, "...was only looking at controlling all the offices instead of looking at resolving the problems challenging this state."

Labor Department Act

Lathrop’s father, William Lathrop of Illinois, had helped found the Republican Party in 1854, while she herself was a graduate of Vassar College, a friend of Jane Addams, and a social reformer who had worked at Hull House in Chicago.

Lillian Berlin

In 2004, Berlin was involved in a similar incident when after a show at the Gypsy Tea Room in Dallas he was shot at, and pistol whipped because of his on-stage talk disparaging the Republican Party.

Malcolm R. Patterson

The Republican Party, which was embroiled in a power struggle between Walter P. Brownlow and Newell Sanders, initially nominated two candidates, T. Asbury Wright (Brownlow's candidate) and George Tillman (Sanders's candidate), but Wright eventually withdrew.

Michael Doherty

Michael J. Doherty (born 1963), American Republican Party politician, member of the New Jersey Senate

Michigan's 11th congressional district election, 2012

After McCotter's resignation, several candidates considered mounting a write-in campaign, including Bingham Farms-based attorney David Trott, former state Rep. Andrew "Rocky" Raczkowski, state Sen. Mike Kowall of White Lake and former Oakland County Republican Party Chairman Paul Welday.

Morris Lyon Buchwalter

Politically, Buchwalter identified with the Republican Party, being a bridge figure between the abolition movement and the Progressive era.

MTR Western

State Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser said, "Gov. Gregoire has been making it harder and harder for businesses to survive here in our state for three years, so it's no surprise that her campaign hired a bus with Oregon license plates to save money. The symbolism of Gov. Gregoire's bus tour couldn't be plainer."

N. Randy Smith

In the early 1990s, Smith served as Chairman of the Idaho Republican Party and helped manage the campaign of former Idaho governor Phil Batt.

Nationalist Republican Party

Notable leaders of the Nationalist Republican Party, besides Machado, included Tomé de Barros Queirós, Júlio Dantas, and José Mendes Cabeçadas, Cunha Leal, who left to found the Liberal Republican Union in 1926, and, after 1925, Commander Filomeno da Câmara de Melo Cabral, one of the organisers of the 18 April 1925 Generals' Coup.

Never Trust a Liberal Over 3—Especially a Republican

The columns cover a wide range of topics, including infighting in the Republican Party, the Democratic Party's historical connections to the KKK, controversy over Elizabeth Warren's Cherokee heritage, Barack Obama's relationship with the American news media, criticisms of Marco Rubio's immigration overhaul proposals, gun control, abortion, crime, and airport security.

People's Republican Party

Peoples Republican Party, a political party in India, also known as the Republican Party of India (Kawade).

Peoples Republican Party

The Peoples Republican Party or Republican Party of India (Kawade) is a political party in India, a splinter group of the old Ambedkarite Republican Party of India.

Red and Blue

Red states and blue states, referential terms denoting those states of the United States whose residents predominantly vote for the Republican Party or Democratic Party presidential candidates, respectively

Republican Party of Texas

In 1961, James A. Leonard, was the "first Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas to emphasize the Party's new intention to become a force in state government." "In the dead of night," he moved the Party Headquarters from Houston to Austin" and "mobilized the Party's meager resources to support the candidacy of a 36-year-old Associate Professor of Government, John Tower, to fill Lyndon Johnson's vacant US Senate Seat.

Sinnickson

Clement Hall Sinnickson (1834–1919), American Republican Party politician

Steven Law

Steven J. Law, American attorney and Republican Party fundraiser

The Daily of the University of Washington

Luke Esser — Former chairman of the State of Washington Republican Party, former state senator

Thomas Martin, Jr.

During his re-election campaign, the Maine Republican Party criticized Lachowicz for comments she made while playing World of Warcraft.

Unión Republicana

Republican Union Party (Spain) - original Republican Party, founded in 1934

United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota, 2012

The North Dakota Republican Party held a candidates' debate on December 14 at the campus of Valley City State University.

Van Taylor

On August 2, 2013, Taylor announced he would seek the Republican Party's 2014 nomination for the Texas Senate, District 8 seat currently held by Ken Paxton, who is vacating the seat to run for Texas Attorney General.

Wallace Townsend

He became an integral part of the GOP legal counsel active in the Lily White faction, which sought to recruit white Conservative Democrats into the Republican Party, then previously the domain of the relatively few African-American voters registered in the state.

William Crow

William E. Crow, (1870–1922), American lawyer and Republican party politician

William Proctor

William L. Proctor (born 1933), Republican Party member of the Florida House of Representatives