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The Logo
The now-famous Democratic donkey was first associated with Democrat Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign. His opponents called him a jackass ,a donkey, and Jackson decided to use the image of the strong-willed animal on his campaign posters. Thomas Nast later used the Democratic donkey in newspaper cartoons and made the symbol famous. -
how it came about.
Two meetings were held in is wisconsin, on Feb. 28 and Mar. 20, 1854, and were attended by a group of abolitionist Free Soilers, Democrats, and Whigs. They decided to call themselves Republicans-because they professed to be political descendants of Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican party. The name was formally adopted by a state convention held in Jackson, Michigan july 6, 1854.
The Republican party was successful from beginning. -
Republican Party was created
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the act that founded the part
The stimulus for its founding was provided by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 -
republicans won
in 1858 the Republicans won control of the House of Representatives for the first time. -
first republican president.
first republican elected for president, and it did so successfully by guiding the Union to a victory and also by abolishing slavery, Although abolishing the n ational union didnt happen until 1932. The Republican Party was mainly northern white Protestants, businessmen, professionals, factory workers, farmers, and African-Americans. It was pro-business, supporting banks, the gold standard, railroads, and tariffs to protect industrial workers and industry. -
assasination
James A. Garfield was nominated as the Republican candidate in 1880. Chester A. Arthur of New York was nominated for vice-president, mes A. Garfield was nominated as the Republican candidate in 1880. Chester A. Arthur of New York was nominated for vice-president. After a close win, Garfield was assassinated and Arthur became president of the United States. -
republican party vs democratic party
A Democrat and a Republican differ in many various ways, especially in their philosophy, ideas, worldview and politics. A Democrat is considered to be liberal where as a Republican is known to be very conservative. -
the Republican party controls the presidency
in the 1920's the republicans ruled presidency. Warren G Harding, calvin coolege and herbet hoover were elected in 1920, 1924, 1928. -
alienated conservative democrats
Roosevelt alienated many conservative Democrats, in 1937, by his unexpected plan to “pack” the Supreme Court via the Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937. Following a sharp recession that hit early in 1938, major strikes all over the country, and Roosevelt's failed efforts to radically reorganize the Supreme Court and federal courts, the GOP gained 75 House seats in 1938. Conservative Democrats, mostly from the South, joined with Republicans led by Senator Robert A. -
GOP
From 1939 through 1941, there was a sharp debate within the GOP about support for Britain in World War II. Internationalists, such as Henry Stimson and Frank Knox, wanted to support Britain and isolationists, such as Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg, strongly opposed these moves as unwise, if not unconstitutional. The America First movement was a bipartisan coalition of isolationists. (Debate within GOP) -
roosevelts death
Roosevelt died in office in 1945, and Harry S. Truman became president. With the end of the war, unrest among organized labor led to many strikes in 1946, and the resulting disruptions helped the GOP. -
dwight d eisenhower
In 1952 the Republican national convention nominated Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to head its ticket. Although the party was split over the defeat of conservative senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio for that nomination, its ticket went on to win a landslide victory, carrying 39 states. The 1956 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, and his great personal popularity. Democratic c -
34th president of the united states
Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States]In 1952, Dwight Eisenhower, an internationalist allied with the Dewey wing, was drafted as a GOP candidate by a small group of Republicans led by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. in order that he challenge Taft on foreign policy issues. The two men were not far apart on domestic issues. Eisenhower's victory broke a 20 year Democratic lock on the White House. Eisenhower did not try to roll back the New Deal, but he did expand the Social Security system -
ronald reagan
in 1984, Reagan won nearly 60% of the popular vote and carried every state except his Democratic opponent Walter Mondale's home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia, creating a record 525 electoral vote total (of 538 possible). Even in Minnesota, Mondale won by a mere 3,761 votes, meaning Reagan came within less than 3,800 votes of winning in all fifty states.Political commentators, trying to explain how Reagan had won by such a large margin. -
George W Bush
George W. Bush, won the 2000 Republican presidential nomination over his competitors, Arizona Senator John McCain, former Transportation Secretary, Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole, and others. With his victory in the 2000 election against the Vice President Al Gore of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party gained control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1952. -
number of presidents that have been republicans.
18 out of the 47 past presidents have been republican, the last US President was George W. Bush, meaning 4 years ago was the last time we, the united states, has has republican ruling. -
Nixon era
In 1960, 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. a bitter internal party struggle prior to the 1964 Republican convention, Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona wrested the presidential nomination and control of the Republican party away from the Eastern moderates. -
percentage of republicans
27% of americans are republicans.
