Sheeran, a lawyer and former FBI man is running against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals.

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. ( April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948 ) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York.

Wendell Lewis Willkie (; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944 ) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for president in 1940.

Johnson defeated the Republican standard-bearer, Rubel Phillips, a lawyer originally from Alcorn County.

He was a lawyer and leader of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ) political party.

He was the middle of three children of Alexander Meigs Haig, Sr., a Republican lawyer, and his wife Regina Anne Murphy.

Hobart was a longtime party official, and New Jersey delegates went to the 1896 Republican National Convention determined to nominate the popular lawyer for vice president.

Wood County is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by the Republican Bryan Hughes, a lawyer in Mineola and a native of Wood County.

Upshur County is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by the Republican Bryan Hughes, a lawyer in Mineola.

Harrison County, formerly heavily Democratic, is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by the Republican Bryan Hughes, a lawyer in Mineola.

Camp County is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by the Republican Bryan Hughes, a lawyer in Mineola.

Allison was named after the Dubuque native Republican politician, lawyer and senator William B. Allison.

* James William Trimble, former U. S. representative, unseated in 1966 by Republican John Paul Hammerschmidt ; former Berryville lawyer

* Thomas E. Dewey, lawyer, author, mob-busting District Attorney of New York City, three term Governor of New York ( 1942, 1946, 1950 ), and the Republican presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948.

* Columbus Delano-Whig and Republican politician and lawyer.

In 1962, 1964, and 1968, David C. Treen, a Metairie, lawyer who became the first Louisiana Republican governor in 1980, challenged Boggs for reelection.

" He worked as a lawyer and lobbyist, was an unsuccessful candidate for the U. S. Senate and also served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997, during which time the Republicans captured both the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives for the first time since 1954.

As the only lawyer in Essex County aligned with the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans, he was hired as counsel to the powerful Republican shipping firm of George Crowninshield & Sons.

* Thomas A. Jones ( 1859 – 1937 ), Republican lawyer and judge in the U. S. State of Ohio

In 1960, Rockefeller did not seek the governorship but instead raised funds for the Republican nominee, Henry M. Britt, a conservative lawyer from Hot Springs, the seat of Garland County.

In 1961, Rockefeller was named Arkansas Republican national committeeman, having succeeded Wallace Townsend, a lawyer in Little Rock who had held the position since 1928.

He unseated the incumbent James William Fulbright in the Democratic primary by a wide margin and then overwhelmed the Republican lawyer and banker John Harris Jones ( born 1922 ) of Pine Bluff.

In the 1932 general election, Futrell defeated the Republican J. O. Livesay, a lawyer of Foreman in Little River County in southwestern Arkansas, who had also been the gubernatorial nominee against Harvey Parnell in 1930.

His father, Raymond Dellinger, a graduate of Yale University, was a lawyer and a prominent Republican and friend of Calvin Coolidge.

The results of the election of 1859 found Republican candidates not only winning the offices of governor and lieutenant-governor but also obtaining the two Congressional offices from the eastern and western sections of the state.

Sandman told the gathering that reports from workers on a local level all over the state indicate that Jones will be chosen the Republican Party's nominee with the largest majority given a candidate in recent years.

`` To prevent hoodlums from infiltrating the state as they did in the Republican administration in the early 1940s ''.

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.

Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party nomination.

As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln found his policies and personality were " blasted from all sides ": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death.

He was the first president from the Republican Party.

At its 1864 convention, the Republican Party selected Andrew Johnson, a War Democrat from the Southern state of Tennessee, as his running mate.

In Mexico, exiled Republican intellectuals extended the Annales approach, particularly from the Center for Historical Studies of El Colegio de México, the leading graduate studies institution of Latin America.

* Rosenfeld, Richard N. American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It ( 1997 ), clippings from a Republican newspaper

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

When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention – with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform – many moderates were alienated.

Craig Livingstone, head of the White House Office of Personnel Security, improperly requested, and received from the FBI, background report files without asking permission of the subject individuals ; many of these were employees of former Republican administrations.

" Clinton himself stated that DOMA was something " which the Republicans put on the ballot to try to get the base vote for President Bush up, I think it ’ s obvious that something had to be done to try to keep the Republican Congress from presenting that.

Thus, similar to the claim put forward by the Provisional IRA after its split from the Official IRA in 1969, the Continuity IRA claims to be the legitimate continuation of the ' Irish Republican Army ' or Óglaigh na hÉireann.

These changes within the military wing of the Republican Movement were accompanied by changes in the political wing and at the 1986 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis ( party conference ), which followed the IRA Convention, the party's policy of abstentionism, which forbade Sinn Féin elected representatives from taking seats in the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland, was dropped.

A senior source from Republican Sinn Féin said: " We would see them purported new leadership as just another splinter group that has broken away.

Joe Martin, the Republican Speaker from 1947 – 1949 and again from 1953 – 1955, wrote that Eisenhower " never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill.

In retirement, the former president did not completely retreat from political life ; he spoke at the 1964 Republican National Convention and appeared with Barry Goldwater in a Republican campaign commercial from Gettysburg.