To: kellynla
Ahem...the Republican party was founded a year earlier by Congressman Amos Tuck on October 12, 1853, in Exeter, NH.
It was the Log Cabin wing of the Republican party the was founded in Ripon. ;->
6 posted on
03/20/2005 5:36:49 AM PST by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
D'oh! Typical History Channel.
11 posted on
03/20/2005 5:39:38 AM PST by
advance_copy
(Stand for life, or nothing at all)
To: billorites
There doesn't appear to be a definite date.
Some history books give July 6th, 1864 too.
The Whig party, and opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 organized the Republican party. Jackson, Mich., is called the birthplace of the party and Joseph Medill is credited with having suggested its name, but these distinctions are also claimed for other places and other men.
18 posted on
03/20/2005 5:51:50 AM PST by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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