Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This list of political parties in the United States, both past and present, does not include independents. Not all states allow the public to access voter registration data. Therefore, voter registration data should not be taken as the correct value and should be viewed as an underestimate.
Labor Party (United States, 19th century) Labor Party of the United States; U.S. Labor Party; Law and Order Party (Kansas) Law Preservation Party; Left Green Network; Liberal Party (Utah) Liberty Party (United States, 1840) Liberty Party (United States, 1932) Lincoln Independent Party
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the 1880s, it has been nicknamed by the media the "Grand Old Party", or GOP, although it is younger than the Democratic Party.
On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected as the first African American president of the United States. On January 20, 2009, Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States in a ceremony attended by nearly 2 million people, the largest congregation of spectators ever to witness the inauguration of a new president. [153]
In the 1790s, political parties were new in the United States and people were not accustomed to having formal names for them. There was no single official name for the Democratic-Republican Party, but party members generally called themselves Republicans and voted for what they called the "Republican party", "republican ticket" or "republican ...
The First Party System was the political party system in the United States between roughly 1792 and 1824. [1] It featured two national parties competing for control of the presidency, Congress, and the states: the Federalist Party, created largely by Alexander Hamilton, and the rival Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party, formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, usually called at the ...
[19] [20] It was in full swing with the 1828 United States presidential election, since the Federalists shrank to a few isolated strongholds and the Democratic-Republicans lost unity during the buildup to the American Civil War. describe the operating in the United States. [21] This party system marked the first in a series of political ...
The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era (University of North Carolina Press, 1966). McGerr, Michael E. The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928 (1988) Maisel, L. Sandy, ed. (1991). Political Parties & Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing. Morgan, H. Wayne (1969).