The first Republican presidential candidate was John Fremont in 1856, who received a third of the vote despite his status as a third-party candidate. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln became the first ...

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 ...

Not since the Republican Party made the leap from third party to major party contender in the 1856 election has a third party broken the entrenched two-party monopoly. Despite this relative lack ...

History is, at its root, a grand painting of human nature in all its ugly colors and forms, a Greek tragedy that shows us at ...

In 1856, Harrison joined the Republican Party. From there, Harrison was elected Indianapolis city attorney, became Secretary of Indiana’s Republican State Central Committee and was elected ...

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 ...