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Control of the Congress from 1855 to 2025 Popular vote and house seats won by party. Party divisions of United States Congresses have played a central role on the organization and operations of both chambers of the United States Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives—since its establishment as the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States in 1789.
The 1947 Partition Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit oral history organization in Berkeley, California, and a registered trust in Delhi, India, that collects, preserves, and shares first-hand accounts of the Partition of India in 1947.
July 18, 1947: The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean (occupied since 1943-1945 of the Second World War), entered into a trusteeship with the new international organization United Nations and administered by the United States for the next few decades.
The Taft–Hartley Act of 1947 was designed to balance the rights of management and labor. It was the central issue of many elections in industrial states in the 1940s to 1950s, but the unions were never able to repeal it.
The Republicans : A History of the Grand Old Party (2nd ed, 2014); First edition 2003 was entitled: Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans online 2nd edition, the best overview. Jensen, Richard (1983). Grass Roots Politics: Parties, Issues, and Voters, 1854–1983. ISBN 9780837163826., very well written scholarly work; Kleppner, Paul, et al.
Historian Jon Grinspan, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution, has studied how intense partisanship in the 19th century was driven by people feeling isolated, their lives unstable, feeding an ...
Political eras of the United States refer to a model of American politics used in history and political science to periodize the political party system existing in the United States. The United States Constitution is silent on the subject of political parties. The Founding Fathers did not originally intend for American politics to be partisan.
1947 American Vegetarian Party: 1947 1967 States' Rights Democratic Party: Dixiecrats Segregationism [117] Split from: Democratic Party: 1948 1948 Progressive Party (1948) Progressivism [118] Split from: Democratic Party: 1948 1955 Constitution Party (1952) Christian Nationalist Party Paleoconservatism [119] 1952 1970s National States' Rights ...