What Political party presidents of late nineteenth century were?

Answer 1

In the mid nineteenth century, the Republican party emerged as a force on an anti-slavery and a "free soil, free labour, free speech, free men" ticket and Abraham Lincoln became its first president. The Democratic party was already well established by this time and throughout the rest of the century, the contest would primarily be between these two parties, the Republicans mostly dominating the east and west coasts and therefore the populous states of New York and Pennsylvania and the Democrats controlling predominantly the south and the new states that joined the union as the twentieth century approached - like Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska etc in the middle of the country. In other words, the electoral college was split along party lines almost exactly the way it is today - except in reverse - now it is usually the Republicans who control the south and middle states, the Democrats who control the coasts. Republican presidents of the era include Lincoln: 2 terms 1860 & 64(replaced by Andrew Johnson when Lincoln was assassinated); Grant: 2 terms 1868 & 72; Rutherford B Hayes: 1 term 1876; James Garfield: 1 term 1880 (replaced after assassination by Chester Arthur); Benjamin Harrison 1 term 1888; and William Mckinley 2 terms 1896 & 1900. Democratic Presidents - only one - Grover Cleveland: 2 terms but not consecutive 1884 & 1892. There were presidential candidates from other parties but they were not very successful - in 1856 the American party got 8 electoral college (EC) votes with Millard Fillmore, in 1860 the Constitutional Party gained 39 EC votes under John Bell, in 1892, John Weaver's People's Party got 22 EC votes. Note: In the 1896 and 1900 elections, the Democratic Party was named the Democrat-Populist party and lost twice to Mckinley. 1852 was the last election year when the Whig party was on the presidential ticket - this party had been the main rival to the democratic party for the previous half century (Zachary Taylor had won with the Whig party in the previous election of 1848). The emerging Republican party absorbed many of the Whigs' values and former supporters/politicians.