James Madison and Thomas Jefferson started the Democratic-Republican party (but they just called it the Republican party). They created the Republican party to oppose the Federalist party. The Republican party that they created was the second political party in the United States.
Bovey was the founder of the Republican Party.
The republican party was started in Wisconsin.
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson started the Democratic-Republican party (but they just called it the Republican party). They created the Republican party to oppose the Federalist party. The Republican party that they created was the second political party in the United States.
Thomas Jefferson was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. It was a sect of the Republican Party started by Jefferson.
The Democratic-Republican Party was the forerunner of the Democratic Party. It was started by Thomas Jefferson.
The Republican party originally started out as a party which was against slavery (Abraham Lincoln was a Republican) and that is really the only main thing that Republicans have to do with racism. Claiming that the Republican Party is racist is unsubstantiated by facts (the current head of the Republican Party, Michael Steele is black). Other than their initial founding as an anti-slavery party, race has little to do with the Republican Party.
James Madison's political party affiliation was the "Democratic-Republican Party" a party organized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. The Democratic and Republican parties as we know them today did not exist at that time. The Republican Party was started in 1860 when a group split off from the Democratic Party which had changed and evolved from the original Democratic-Republican Party.
William Howard Taft was the incumbent Republican President and was nominated for a second term by his party in 1912. Teddy Roosevelt who started off as a Republican left and started a new party. This cost Taft the re-election and put a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson in as President.
the republican party
It did not have a strong leader
If you mean the Republican party, under the name of Federalist it was pretty much the brainchild of Alexander Hamilton.