In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

The Republican party was not lacking in humanity, but it permitted its extremely partisan leadership to make it appear devoid of any consideration for people in trouble.

The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.

There was no doubt as to the control the Republican party exercised throughout the state.

If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

The result was a landslide for the Republican candidates.

One Republican senator told this correspondent that he was constantly being asked why he didn't attack the Kennedy administration on this score.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

Mitchell was for using it, Jones against, and Sen. Wayne Dumont Jr. R-Warren did not mention it when the three Republican gubernatorial candidates spoke at staggered intervals before 100 persons at the Park Hotel.

The former secretary of labor said he was proud to be an Eisenhower Republican `` and proud to have absorbed his philosophy '' while working in his adminstration.

The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.

A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.

Then Rudy Bond was simply grand as Ben, the distraught Republican Party district chieftain.

" Drawing on remnants of the old Whig party, and on disenchanted Free Soil, Liberty, and Democratic party members, he was instrumental in forging the shape of the new Republican Party.

In May 1859, Lincoln purchased the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, a German-language newspaper which was consistently supportive ; most of the state's 130, 000 German Americans voted Democratic but there was Republican support that a German-language paper could mobilize.

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

He was the first president from the Republican Party.

Gresham had a long career as a political appointee in the latter part of the 19th century ; though he lost his only two bids for elective office, he served in three Cabinet positions and was twice a dark horse candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

Even though Stevenson had twice been the Democratic Party's presidential candidate and retained a loyal following of liberals, his two landslide defeats to Republican Dwight Eisenhower led most party leaders and delegates to search for a " fresh face " who could win a national election.

Dewey was the only Republican to be nominated for President twice and lose both times.

Similarly, Allan Shivers won the 1952 nominations of both the Democratic and Republican parties in Texas ( and had his name appear on the ballot twice, once for each party ; Democrat Shivers handily defeated Republican Shivers in the general election ).

However, Republican George W. Bush carried Clallam twice, defeating John Kerry by 51. 3 % to 46. 3 % in 2004, and Al Gore by 50. 4 % to 42. 7 % in 2000 ( although Bush lost Washington as a whole both times ).

Although Ronald Reagan carried the county twice, no other Republican has won the county in the last 50 years.

It was found that independents are twice as likely to vote for the Republican candidate when the Republican is expected to win.

Thomas E. Dewey was a East Coast Republican liberal who was twice nominated by his party to run for the Presidency of the United States.

Only twice in U. S. history has the Vice President been from a different political party from that of the President, namely when Democrat Andrew Johnson was vice president under Republican Abraham Lincoln and Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson was vice president under Federalist John Adams ; a situation that in part prompted the later adoption of the Twelfth Amendment to prevent such a situation from reoccurring.

The speech was delivered at most twice ( and copies were passed out to members of the Republican National Committee at their summer 1880 meeting in New York ), but Guiteau believed himself to be largely responsible for Garfield's victory.

Other Bible Belt states have voted for the Republican presidential candidate in the majority of elections since 1980, but have gone to the Democratic candidate either once or twice since then.

On February 26, as a part of the Republican suit, Rossi's legal team produced a list of 1, 135 felons, deceased people, or people who allegedly voted twice, whom attorneys claimed influenced the outcome.

He was a Republican, and was twice elected as the Territorial delegate to Congress, and served from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Jr. ( born July 18, 1947 ) is an American publishing executive who was twice a candidate for the nomination of the Republican Party for president.

Smith Wildman Brookhart ( February 2, 1869November 15, 1944 ), was twice elected as a Republican to represent Iowa in the United States Senate.

Burns spent twice as much money as Schweitzer on the election and only defeated him by a slim margin, 51-47 percent, while the state voted 58-33 percent for Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush.

Renzi received significant support from the national Republican party in the race: President Bush visited twice, including a fundraiser ; Vice President Cheney appeared at a fund-raising luncheon ; Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton visited the district to support Renzi ; and so did Mel Martinez, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Dunn was chair of the Washington State Republican Party from 1981 to 1992 and twice a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women ( 1984 and 1990 ).

Bradley ran for Governor of California twice, in 1982 and 1986, but lost both times to Republican George Deukmejian.

In the 1952, 1956 and 1960 elections, Virginia, Tennessee and Florida went Republican, while Louisiana went Republican in 1956, and Texas twice voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower and once for John F. Kennedy.

He twice ran favorite son campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, in 1964 and 1968.

Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978, having defeated the Republican candidate Lynn Lowe, a farmer from Texarkana.

In New Mexico, Republican Gary Johnson made school voucher provision the major issue of his second term as Governor.

The current Governor is Rick Snyder, a member of the Republican Party.

Lynch spent the five months preceding the election relentlessly attacking Governor Craig Benson, the first-term Republican incumbent, for what Lynch claimed was a lack of integrity following a long series of scandals during Benson's tenure.

On November 7, 2006, Lynch was re-elected Governor in a 74 % to 26 % landslide victory over Republican challenger Jim Coburn.

" In 1994, Kemp and Bennett opposed California ballot Proposition 187, a measure to bar illegal immigrants from obtaining public services, in direct opposition to first-term Republican California Governor Pete Wilson, one of its endorsers who was running for re-election.

On the Republican side NPP-affiliated statehood Republicans control the GOP local chapter ( Republican Party of Puerto Rico ), headed by state chair and Aguadilla mayor Carlos Méndez, Republican National Committeeman and Governor Luis Fortuño and Republican National Committeewoman Zoraida Fonalledas.

* 26-Strom Thurmond, 100, Governor of South Carolina, United States Republican Senator from South Carolina and Presidential candidate ( as a Dixiecrat ).

* Charles W. Sandman, Jr., Republican Congressman for New Jersey's 2nd district ( 1967 – 1975 ) and Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey ( 1973 )

Reed tried to obtain the Republican nomination for President in 1896, but Ohio Governor McKinley's campaign manager, Mark Hanna, blocked his efforts.

Classic examples of this came in 1988, when Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis chose experienced Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and 2008, when Republican candidate John McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

In early 1903 Harding announced his campaign for Governor of Ohio, which was soon thwarted by an intra-party alliance that assured the election of fellow Republican Myron T. Herrick ; Harding was awarded the position of Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, a post he occupied from 1904 to 1906.

In 1910 Wilson ran for Governor of New Jersey against the Republican candidate Vivian M. Lewis, the State Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.

** Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, as part of a ' stop-Goldwater ' movement.

* November 4 – United States presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter, exactly 1 year after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis.

** Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

In 2010, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell gave the Republican response from the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates.

Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana, gave the Republican response to the 2012 State of the Union address.

In April 1973, when revelations about Watergate began to surface, Agnew was the choice of 35 percent of Republican voters to be the next Republican nominee for President, while then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was second on the Gallup Poll.