Republicans

Type

Political Party

Symbol

Elephant

Founded

1854

Founding Principle

Opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery

Core Policies (modern)

Economy, border security, defense

Headquarters (example location)

Brookings, Curry County, Oregon, United States

1854-XX-XX

1860-XX-XX

1864-XX-XX

1896-XX-XX

1932-XX-XX

2016-XX-XX

2024-XX-XX

Republican and Democrat party mascots, united states, government, politics **Republican Party**, in the United States, one of the two major political parties, the other being the Democratic Party. In the country’s second critical election, in 1896, the Republicans won the presidency and control of both houses of Congress, and the Republican Party became the majority party in most states outside the South. His vice president, George H.W. Bush, continued the Republicans’ presidential success by handily defeating Democrat Michael S. But, to the surprise of most political pundits, he won the Electoral College despite amassing almost three million fewer popular votes than Democrat Hillary Clinton, giving Republicans the presidency for the first time in eight years to go alongside the party’s retention of power in both chambers of Congress.

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into U.S. territories. It

With the election of its first president, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860, the party's success in guiding the Union "Union (American Civil War)") to victory in the Civil War, and the party's role in the abolition of slavery, the Republican Party largely dominated the national political scene until 1932. Following the 1864 elections, Radical Republicans led by Charles Sumner in the Senate and Thaddeus Stevens in the House set the agenda by demanding more aggressive action against slavery and more vengeance [...]ayes to McKinley; National Party Politics, 1877–1896* (1969). *Seeking a New Majority: The Republican Party and American Politics, 1960–1980* (Vanderbilt University Press; 2013), 248 pages; scholarly studies of how the party expanded its base, appealed to new constituencies and challenged Democratic dominance.

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