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Abraham Lincoln was the first president from the Republican party.
Abraham Lincoln was the first president who was a member of the modern Republican party. Some sources, particularly simplified charts, describe earlier presidents as being republican, but that was a different and not directly related party, which was formally called the Republican Democratic party. Thomas Jefferson, for example, is often cited as being the first Republican president, but he was, in fact, a Republican Democrat.
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.
The beginning of the third party system occurred when the Republican Party first began to dominate American politics.
The Republican Party had not been created at that time.
He was the leader of the new Democratic party in 1828 during presidency.
President Harry S. Truman.
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Lincoln was in the Republican Party (like the majority of the Northern States). However, the Republican Party during Lincoln's time was very different than the Republicans now.
Republican Party. He was the first Republican to be elected to office.
No. Alexander Hamilton was leader of the Federalist Party; Thomas Jefferson was leader of the Democratic-Republican Party. They had radically different views of government.
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People First Republican Party of Ontario was created in 2007.
Abraham Lincoln was the first president from the Republican party.
The Democratic Party is the brainchild of Martin Van Buren from the remnants of the Democractic-Republican Party after the disaster of the 1824 election. The leader of the newly formed Democrat Party in the 1830's was first Andrew Jackson, then Martin Van Buren. The Democratic National Committee wasn't organized until 1848. The other portion of the Democratic-Republican Party became the Whigs until 1852 when Abraham Lincoln formed the Republican Party.