1856: Republicans: John C. Fremont The Republican Party grew out of resistance to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which overrode the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery to spread into ...

In 1856, at their first convention in Philadelphia, it was members of the newly formed Republican Party who sought to do just that — putting their success and their futures on the line by loudly ...

the antislavery Republicans. Millard Fillmore, the American Party candidate in 1856, previously served as 13th president of the United States (1850-53). Before 1855, the Know-Nothings had no ...

The Whig Party died in 1856 because the new Republican Party was able to draw off so many Whigs that the Republican Party effectively killed the Whig Party. There seems to be a parallel here ...

Two years later, the Republican Party held its first national convention ... By 2011, both events had been wiped from the RNC ...

The Savannah Republican has the following letter, which purports to tell how Mr. ARROWSMITH came to be so prodigiously hoaxed: MACON, Friday, Nov. 21, 1856. Editor of the Savannah Republican ...

and which called the first Republican National Convention at Philadelphia, in June, 1856, where Fremont was nominated for the Presidency, has formally accepted an invitation extended by Senator ...

James Buchanan had tried for the Democratic nomination several times and finally succeeded in 1856, in large part because as Ambassador ... threatening secession with the rise of the Republican Party.