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The 1856 Republican National Convention was a presidential nominating convention that met from June 17 to June 19, 1856, at Musical Fund Hall at 808 Locust Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] It was the first national nominating convention of the Republican Party , founded two years earlier in 1854.
The Republican Party was formed in early 1854 to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act. During the midterm elections of 1854–1855, the Republican Party was one of the patchwork of anti-administration parties contesting the election, but they were able to win thirteen seats in the House of Representatives for the 34th Congress.
Musical Fund Hall at 808 Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia, where the first Republican nominating convention for president and vice president was held from June 17 to 19, 1856. The Republican Party launched its first national organizing convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 22, 1856.
Fremont defeated Supreme Court Justice John McLean at the 1856 Republican National Convention to take the Republican nomination. Fillmore's third-party candidacy took over twenty percent of the popular vote, [ 4 ] the best popular vote showing by a third party until Theodore Roosevelt 's 1912 candidacy.
This is the first time Adams county voted for a Democratic party candidate, though it did vote for Andrew Jackson in 1824, who would be the party's first two nominees in 1828 and 1832. This remains the only presidential election in history in which New York voted Republican while its neighboring state, Pennsylvania, voted Democratic.
The Republican Party hosted its first Republican National Convention at Musical Fund Hall at 808 Locust Street in Philadelphia from June 17 to 19, 1856, nominating John C. Frémont as its presidential candidate in the 1856 presidential election.
In 1856, Frémont (age 43) became the first presidential candidate of the newly-formed Republican Party. The Republicans, whose party had been established in 1854, were united in their opposition to the Pierce Administration and the spread of slavery into the West. [110]
The 1856 Republican National Convention was held from June 17 to 19, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the aim to nominate a Republican candidate for president in the upcoming election. Only two years prior, the Republican Party had been formed to fight the expansion of slavery, specifically, in the western territories.