The Republican Party is one of the two major political parties in the US. It was founded in 1858 by anti slavery expansion activist. It was known then as the GOP or Grand Old Party.
In 1854.
Slavery
Lincoln won the election and the Republican Party was established.
They didn't, exactly. The Whig Party evolved from the National Republican Party (a splinter of the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans established around 1824), then split into the Free Soil and Know-Nothing Parties in the 1840s. The new Republican Party was established around 1854, and consisted largely of former Whig, Free Soil and Know-Nothing Party members.
The republican party was established by those who were opposed to slavery.
Lincoln won the election and the Republican Party was established.
the republican party
The Republican Party.
Richard Nixon was a member of the Republican Party.
The Democratic-Republican Party was better known as the Republican Party. The later Republican Party was named to pay homage to this party.
When he ran for President, Theodore Roosevelt was the nominee of the Republican Party in 1904 and the Progressive Party in 1912. 1912 was the last time to date that the Republican Party Presidential Nominee finished third.
The Republican Party maintains that its roots began in 1854 or so when the Whig Party disintegrated. The Democrats have no "official" beginning date, but clearly it is older than the Republican Party.