The Republican Party, forged from a coalition of political forces to oppose the advance of slavery in the American west, was created in Ripon, Wisconsin, on this day in history, March 20, 1854 ...

On this day in 1854, Alvan E. Bovay (1818-1903) called an anti-slavery meeting at the Congregational Church in Ripon, ... 1854, to popularize the new Republican Party movement.

The Republican Party 1854-2016 R.I.P. ... When next my name appears on the voter rolls at my polling place, I will be listed not as a Republican, but as having no party preference.

That the Republican Party has worked its way to a lonely and unpopular place is not news. The G.O.P.’s congressional wing has been moving rightward since the 1980s, and in ...

3/20/1854: The Republican Party is founded. President Abraham Lincoln would be elected President on the Republican ticket six years later on November 6, 1860.

In 1854, the Republican Party of the United States was founded by slavery opponents at a schoolhouse in Ripon (RIH'-puhn), Wisconsin. In 1942, U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur, having evacuated ...

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Charles Zimmerman, The Origin and Rise of the Republican Party in Indiana from 1854 to 1860, Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 13, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER, 1917), pp. 211-269 ...

With 2,429 delegates to the Republican National Convention coming to Milwaukee, joining thousands of journalists and national and international officials, time for reminders of Wisconsin’s ...

The election process in the United States is a fascinating thing. With the 2016 Republican Convention completed, I thought it would be good to take a look at the birth of the Republican Party. The ...