None. It was organised in 1854 at State level and was already up and running before contesting its first Presidential elecion in 1856.
Republican
Abraham Lincoln was the first president from the Republican party.
Richard Nixon was a member of the Republican Party.
republican
a republican
The present-day Republican Party is descended from the Anti-Federalist party.
Theodore Roosevelt was a President of the Republican Party.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was the first president to represent the Republican Party when he ran for president.
A GOP President is a President from the Republican Party, also referred to as the Grand Old Party.
Republican
Republican
at the time there was a party called the whigs. Then later he joined the republicans