In the 1800s, Liberal Republicans advocated an end to slavery, and full citizenship rights for freed slaves. This viewpoint was closely associated with the Quakers.
The term came back again in the 1960s to 1980s to indicate a Republican who broke with some of the party's planks regarding Birth Control, gay rights, Immigration, marijuana, and the goal of making America all Christian. Most of the 'liberal' wing of the Republican party disappeared after the mid-1980s.
Liberal republicans
the liberal republicans
Horace Greeley
republicans are conservative and do not like change democrats are liberal and embrace change
liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans in Congress
Typically when a liberal succeeds, it is not good for the country. Republicans and Democrats disagree about what success is.
the national party
Liberal Republicans
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Blanche K. Bruce
because they hated grant
Nelson Rockefeller was considered the leader of the Liberal Republican movement. Some people find this debatable, but I consider the former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani to be a liberal Republican.