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The Republican party is a United States political party 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)
  2. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
  3. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
  4. James Garfield (1881)
  5. Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)
  6. Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
  7. William McKinley (1897-1901)
  8. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
  9. William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
  10. Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
  11. Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
  12. Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
  13. Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961)
  14. Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
  15. Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)
  16. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
  17. George Bush (1989-1993)
  18. George W. Bush (2001-)

Noted Republicans:

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