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Republican Party (United States)

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United States political party. The Republican party was started in the 1850s as an anti-slavery party. (It is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson). Traditionally the Republican Party is considered to be politically to the right of the United States Democratic Party.


Republican Party Presidents:

  1. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
  1. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
  1. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
  1. James Garfield (1881)
  1. Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)
  1. Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
  1. William McKinley (1897-1901)
  1. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
  1. William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
  1. Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
  1. Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
  1. Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
  1. Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961)
  1. Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
  1. Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)
  1. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
  1. George Bush (1989-1993)
  1. George W. Bush (2001-)


Noted Republicans:

James Blaine
Joseph Gurney Cannon
Thomas Dewey
John Fremont
Newt Gingrich
Barry Goldwater
Charles Evans Hughes
Thomas Brackett Reed
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller
Robert Alphonso Taft