Republican party candidate nominated for for presidency
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.
Mitt Romney is the Republican candidate running for president in 2012.
The first black candidate nominated for US presidency was Frederick Douglass. His nomination was from the Kentucky delegation during the June 23, 1888 Republican convention.
The Republican presidential candidate did poorly in the 1856 US presidential elections. John Fremont, the candidate was too radical for most Americans. Also, the party was simply too new to have an impact.
Thomas E. Dewey was the republican candidate in 1944
Republican Presidential Candidate in 1940 .
Abraham Lincoln.
Jefferson Davis
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 Republican Presidential candidate nominated in 1860 was Abraham Lincoln.
In 1924, the republican candidate for the presidency was Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge won the election with 54 percent of the vote.