Trace the political history of the Republican Party (Senate, House, President parties and ideals) from 1877 through today
By schwartzph
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Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president this day to become the 19th President in 1877 winning the electoral votes 185 to 184 against Samuel J. Tilden of New York.
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Elected to be the 20th President of the United States of America.
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Republicans supported the womens sufferage.
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Theodore Roosevelt was the President from 1901-1909. Best known as the trust buster and setting up the Panama Canal for a quick route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
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The U.S. House adopted Representative Leonidas Dyer's bill making lynching a federal crime. Filibustering Senate Democrats killed the measure.
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Republicans opposed Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Supreme Court nominee of U.S. Senator Hugo Black, former Klansman who defended Klansmen against race-murder charges.
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Eisenhower signs the GOP's 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a five-day, five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats
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On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69 days later he was shot by a would-be assassin, but quickly recovered and returned to duty. His grace and wit during the dangerous incident caused his popularity to soar.
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June 29, 1982: President Ronald Reagan signed a 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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President Reagan established Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday, the first such honor for a black American.
