Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
The Republican party.
With the understanding that Abe refers to Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln was first a Whig party member. When the Whigs Party ended, Abraham Lincoln joined the Republican Party.
Abe Lincoln was part of the Republican party.
August 4 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to the Illinois General Assembly for the first time, representing Sangamon County, which was much larger than it is today. He ran as a member of the Whig Party. This was his second attempt to gain a political office.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the first member of the Republican Party to be elected President of the United States, in 1860. The Republican Party was formed in the years leading up to the American Civil War.
Georgia wanted to secede from the Union because they believed Abraham's Lincolns election, and republican party's were strongly and aggressively anti-slavery.
Republican
While Lincoln wished for the Union to stay the way it was, (yes even if that meant allowing slavery to continue), a lot of his party members were abolitionists who demanded reform.
It made victory for the Republican party inevitable.
Yes Lincoln was the first Republican president Before the establishment of the Republican Party, he was a member of the Whig party. Then when the Republican party was formed, he joined the Republican party. This was because Lincoln did not believe slavery was moral. .