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An alternate symbol of the Republican Party in states such as Indiana, New York and Ohio is the bald eagle as opposed to the Democratic rooster or the Democratic five-pointed star. [190] [191] In Kentucky, the log cabin is a symbol of the Republican Party. [192] Traditionally the party had no consistent color identity.
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States. It is the second-oldest extant political party in the United States after its main political rival, the Democratic Party. In 1854, the Republican Party emerged to combat the expansion of slavery into western territories ...
The Republican Party, known retroactively as the Democratic-Republican Party(also referred to by historians as the Jeffersonian Republican Party)[a], was an American political partyfounded by Thomas Jeffersonand James Madisonin the early 1790s. It championed liberalism, republicanism, individual liberty, equal rights, decentralization, free ...
The Founding Fathers discoursed endlessly on the meaning of "republicanism." John Adams in 1787 defined it as "a government, in which all men, rich and poor, magistrates and subjects, officers and people, masters and servants, the first citizen and the last, are equally subject to the laws."
Blue and buff – Whig Party (United States) Gold with dark gray, sometimes with dark blue or purple – Libertarian Party. Green – Green Party. Orange – American Solidarity Party (Christian democracy) Purple – politically mixed or moderate regions; Constitution Party, Veterans Party of America. Red – Republican Party.
The Liberal Republican Party was an American political party that was organized in May 1872 to oppose the reelection of President Ulysses S. Grant and his Radical Republican supporters in the presidential election of 1872. The party emerged in Missouri under the leadership of Senator Carl Schurz and soon attracted other opponents of Grant ...
t. e. The National Republican Party, also known as the Anti-Jacksonian Party or simply Republicans, [ 1 ] was a political party in the United States which evolved from a conservative-leaning faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that supported John Quincy Adams in the 1824 presidential election. Known initially as "Adams- Clay Republicans ...
Donald John Trump(born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United Statesfrom 2017 to 2021. Trump received a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvaniain 1968. His father made him president of the family real estate business in 1971.