United States Republican Party

United States political party. The Republican party was started in the 1850s as an anti-slavery party. (It is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson). Traditionally the Republican Party is considered to be politically to the right of the United States Democratic Party.

Republican Party Presidents:

Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)

Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)

James Garfield (1881)

Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)

Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)

William McKinley (1897-1901)

Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

William Howard Taft (1909-1913)

Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)

Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)

Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)

Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961)

Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)

Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

George Bush (1989-1993)

George W. Bush (2001-)

Noted Republicans:

James Blaine

Joseph Gurney Cannon

[John Fremont]?

[Newt Gingrich]?

Barry Goldwater

Charles Evans Hughes

Thomas Brackett Reed

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller

[Robert Alphonso Taft]?