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Theodore Roosevelt was the Republican Party candidate in 1904 and the Progressive Party candidate in 1912. That was the last time the candidate of a party other than the Republican Party or the Democratic Party came in 2nd in a U. S. Presidential election.
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The Republican Party.
Democratic Party candidate James Buchanan won the 1856 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate John Freemont.
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The candidate for the Democratic-Republican Party in the election of 1796 was Thomas Jefferson. He ran against John Adams of the Federalist Party and ultimately became the vice-president after Adams won the presidency.
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Republican Party candidate John Fremont won 11 northern states in the 1856 presidential election.
The Republican Party did not exist in 1848. It was begun 1854 and nominated its first Presidential candidate in 1856. He was John C. Fremont.
The elephant is a symbol of the Republican Party; the donkey is the symbol of the Democratic Party.
Republican Party. He was the first Republican to be elected to office.
Abraham Lincoln was the winning Republican candidate for president in 1860.