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The Begining
The Rupublic party grew out of the conflicts regarding the expansion of slavery into New Western Territories. The passage act served as an aggent and split the Democrat and whig party.They decided to call themselves Republicans becuase they professed to political descendants of thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican party -
Presidental Nomination
The second Republican nomination convention resulted in the presidental nomination of Abe Lincoln. Republican platform pledged not tot extend slavery and called for enactment of free-homestead legislation. -
Three major caniidates
Lincoln was opposed by three other men, Stephan Douglas (northern democrat) John Cambell (southern democrat) and John Bell Lincoln recieved almost half a million votes more then Douglas but won only 39.8% popular vote -
Rutheford Hayes
Hayes promised to remove the federal troops from the south and urged civil service reform. The hayes adminstration was generally efficient. Hayes did not seek a second term. -
James A. Garfield
James was nominated as republican canidate. Chester A Arthur of New York was nominated for vice president. After a close win Garfield was assasinated and arthur became president -
Chester Arthur
Arthur astonished many with his success in getting passed the Pendleton Act, creating a civil service based on the merit system. He was never able to gain control of his party, however, and was the only president denied renomination by his party's convention -
James Blaine
James G. Blaine of Maine received the nomination instead and faced Democrat Grover Cleveland of New York in the 1884 election. In a campaign infamous as one of the dirtiest in history, Cleveland, aided by the mugwumps led by Carl Schurz, defeated Blaine by a narrow margin. -
Benjamin Harrison
Much of Cleveland's presidency was dominated by debate over the protective tariff. In 1888, after Blaine declined to run, Republicans chose Benjamin Harrison as their nominee. -
MvKinley Teriff Act
cammpaigning strongly in favor of the protective tariff, Harrison defeated Cleveland by an electoral vote of 233 to 168. The Republicans passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, admitted several new states to the Union, and passed the highly protective McKinley Tariff Act. -
McKinley's first term
McKinley's first term was dominated by the 10-week-long Spanish-American War, and Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the annexation of Hawaii. These events increasingly thrust the United States into world politics. -
Vice President Garret Hobart
questions regarding the Republican ticket was who would replace Vice-President Garret Hobart who had died the previous year. Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York was chosen. -
Mickinely's Assasination
McKinley again defeated William Jennings Bryan but was assassinated. Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as president, inaugurating a remarkable era in American political history. -
Roosevelt surprising Reelection
Roosevelt's overwhelming reelection, inaugurated a new era of regulatory legislation and conservation measures. As he had promised, he chose not to run in 1908 and urged the party to nominate William Howard Taft of Ohio. -
worl war 1 !
Despite Wilson's promises, the United States was drawn into World War I, and party politics gave way to bipartisan prosecution of the war. -
Justice Charles Evans Hughes
the republicans nominated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, but Wilson's domestic record, his personal popularity, and his pledge to keep the United States out of the war in Europe were obstacles too great for Hughes to overcome. -
Repubicans in more control
Republicans won control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 1918 elections.The Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge won the 1920 election by a landslide. Harding's administration was plagued by scandals which were inherited by Coolidge after Harding's death. -
Herbert Hoover
Coolidge declined to run again, and the Republicans turned to Herbert Hoover of California. Hoover won by an unprecedented landslide against Alfred E. Smith. Republicans also won control of both houses of Congress. -
end of korean war
ticket of Eisenhower and Nixon won another decisive victory, due in part to Eisenhower's moderate course in foreign policy, his successful ending of the Korean War -
DIFFERNENCE IN VOTES
Vice-President Nixon won an easy victory for nomination but lost the election to John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts by the smallest popular margin in the 20th century-a difference of only about 113,000 votes out of more than 68 million cast.
