The Republicans convened in Chicago and nominated former Speaker of the House James G. Blaine of Maine for president on the fourth ballot.

When the 104th United States Congress convened in January 1995, House Republicans voted former Minority Whip Newt Gingrich – the chief architect of their victory and author of the Contract with America – Speaker of the House, while the new senatorial Republican majority chose Bob Dole, previously Minority Leader, as Majority Leader.

The 1952 election produced an almost evenly-divided Senate ; Morse brought a folding chair when the session convened, intending to position himself in the aisle between the Democrats and Republicans to underscore his lack of party affiliation.

The phalanx of men that convened were inexorable about doing something concerning the direction of the Government under Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and to come, James Buchanan, all of whom made no qualms about their stance on the “ slavery question .” The central plank of these conveners was “ to consider upon the measures which duty demands us, as of a Free State, to take in reference to the late acts of Congress on the subject of slavery, and its anticipated further extension .” Commerce in human bondage was construed by these men as “ a great moral, and social, and political evil ;” It was “ Resolved, that, postponing and suspending all differences with regard to political economy or administrative policy … we will act cordially and faithfully in unison ” to fight the approval of slavery, and “ we will cooperate and be known as ‘ Republicans ’ until the contest be terminated .”

This lead the Chicago Weekly Tribune to state that the movement offered, “ an opportunity to accomplish something for the country at large — not for the farmers merely, but for all who live by their industry, as distinguished from those who live by politics, speculations and class-legislation .” Frustrated by their inability to get Democrats or Republicans to adopt inflationary monetary policy southern and western leaders of monetary reform meet in Indianapolis and proposed the creation of a new political party for currency reform.

The Republicans in Chicago renominated President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis.

With the Democrats in disarray and with a sweep of the Northern states possible, the Republicans were confident going into their convention in Chicago.

Woodworth permitted his Independent Democrat party of Chicago to join with the Whig Party of Illinois to form the Illinois Republicans.

The film also caused controversy in Chicago, where a student from the Northwestern University Young Republicans had publicized a showing of the documentary in the bar area of a theater, only to have the offer rescinded.

His total was the high-water mark for Chicago Republicans in elections for mayor in the heavily Democratic city.

* The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans, The Free Press, 1983, ( 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, 2000 )

Paradoxically the council is weakest in areas that register 4- and 5-to-1 in the party's favor, strongest where Democrats and Republicans compete on a fairly even basis.

Five per cent of the voters in each county must sign petitions requesting that the Republicans be allowed to place names of candidates on the general election ballot, or 2

In his only attack on the Republicans, Hughes said, `` The three Republican candidates for governor are tripping over their feet for popular slogans to win the primary.

Most Republicans agreed with Lincoln that the North was the aggrieved party, as the Slave Power tightened its grasp on the national government with the Dred Scott decision and the presidency of James Buchanan.

From the start, it was clear that bipartisan support would be essential to success in the war effort, and any manner of compromise alienated factions on both sides of the aisle, such as the appointment of Republicans and Democrats to command positions in the Union Army.

When Grant's spring campaigns turned into bloody stalemates and Union casualties mounted, the lack of military success wore heavily on the President's re-election prospects, and many Republicans across the country feared that Lincoln would be defeated.

" In keeping with that sentiment, Lincoln led the moderates regarding Reconstruction policy, and was opposed by the Radical Republicans, under Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Sen. Charles Sumner and Sen. Benjamin Wade, political allies of the president on other issues.

Lincoln's Democratic opponents seized on these appointments to accuse him of using the military to ensure his and the Republicans ' political aspirations.

The moderates ' efforts to compromise with Johnson failed, and a political war ensued between the Republicans ( both radical and moderate ) on one side, and on the other, Johnson and his allies in the Democratic Party in the North and the conservative groupings in the South.

In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.

" 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.

" This term was preferred by those who fought on the anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and is still used by Republicans today.

The group Republicans for Environmental Protection seeks to strengthen the Republican Party's stance on environmental issues, and supports efforts to conserve natural resources and protect human and environmental health.

American trade policy relied on high tariffs under the Republicans, and reciprocal trade agreements under the Democrats, but in any case exports were at very low levels in the 1930s.

Initially Eisenhower planned on serving only one term, but as with other decisions he maintained a position of maximum flexibility in case leading Republicans wanted him to run again.

On September 9, 2010, Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America that the ban on service by openly gay servicemembers was an unconstitutional violation of the First and Fifth Amendments.

LaGuardia's win was based on a complex coalition of regular Republicans ( mostly middle class Germans in the boroughs outside Manhattan ), a minority of reform-minded Democrats, some Socialists, a large proportion of middle-class Jews, and the great majority of Italians.

" Opinion shifted even more in favour of the Republicans in 1917 – 18 with the Conscription Crisis, an attempt by Britain to impose conscription on Ireland to bolster its flagging war effort.

Attacks on remote Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) barracks continued throughout 1919 and 1920, forcing the police to consolidate defensively in the larger towns, effectively placing large areas of the countryside in the hands of the Republicans.

Despite Kemp's voice on minority issues, Colin Powell's support and polls that showed about 30 % of blacks identified themselves as conservatives on issues such as school prayer, school vouchers and criminal justice, the Republicans were unable to improve upon historical support levels from African-American voters.

In 1936, General Francisco Franco ordered Spanish Nationalists to use the weapon against Soviet T-26 tanks supporting the Spanish Republicans in a failed assault on the Nationalist stronghold of Seseña, near Toledo, south of Madrid.

MacGowan was already with The Nips, though when they broke up in 1980 he concentrated a bit more on Stacy's Millwall Chainsaws, who changed their name to The New Republicans.

When a violent race riot broke out in Detroit on June 20, 1943, Willkie went on national radio to criticize Republicans and Democrats for ignoring " the Negro question.

When the Republicans in June 1896 nominated former Ohio Governor William McKinley for president and passed at his request a platform strongly supporting the gold standard, a number of " Silver Republicans " walked out of the convention.

Despite Napoleon's pleas that he abdicate and leave Mexico, Maximilian refused to abandon the Mexican conservatives who had supported him, and remained alongside them until the bitter end, when he was captured by the Republicans and then shot on 19 June 1867.

Vincent Mazzeo was re-elected without opposition for another four-year term in the November 8, 2011 general election, while New Republicans Lisa Brown and Jim O ' Neil defeated Democratic challengers to win seats representing Wards 1 and 2 respectively in the November 8, 2011 general election, after defeating incumbent Regular Republicans Cindy Kern and Brian Smith in the June Primary.

On June 7, a cloture motion to force a direct vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment was defeated in the Senate by a margin of 49 nay votes to 48 yea votes, with the vote mostly following party lines with Democrats opposing and Republicans in favor.

Jules François Simon (; 31 December 1814 – 8 June 1896 ) was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction.

On 26 June 1799 Nelson changed his attitude and authorised Sir William Hamilton, the British minister, to inform the cardinal that he ( Nelson ) would do nothing to break the armistice ; while Captains Bell and Troubridge wrote that they had Nelson ’ s authority to state that the latter would not oppose the embarcation of the Republicans.

But on June 28 Nelson received despatches from the court ( in reply to his own ), in consequence of which he had the vessels brought under the guns of his ships, and many of the Republicans were arrested.

He was re-elected in 1894, but left the Republican party on June 17, 1896 to join the Silver Republicans, a faction of the Republican Party which opposed the party's position in support of the monetary gold standard.

On June 27, 2006, Chafee was one of only three Republicans to vote against the proposed Flag Desecration Amendment.

Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay sought to convince some of dissenting Republicans to switch their votes, as they had in June.

In June 2010, Castle was one of only two Republicans to vote in favor of the DISCLOSE Act, intended to limit spending on political campaigns by corporations in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

On June 24, 1871, Jesse James wrote a letter to the Kansas City Times, claiming Republicans were persecuting him for his Confederate loyalties by accusing him and Frank of carrying out the robberies.

In June 2011, the Chairman and a subcommittee chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, both Republicans, said that the FCC, in response to their requests, had set a target date of August 2011 for removing the Fairness Doctrine and other " outdated " regulations from the FCC's rulebook.

On June 28, 2012, LaTourette was one of only two Republicans ( along with Scott Rigell of Virginia ) who voted against a motion to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress, though he did vote to bring civil charges against Holder, for his handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal.

Controversy arose after the DCCC issued press releases on June 29 and July 2, 2012 which claimed that funds from which Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas casino owner, donates to the Republican Party come in part from “ Chinese prostitution money .” The press releases were repeating allegations from one of Adelson ’ s former employees who filed a lawsuit and alleged that Adelson “ approved of prostitution at a casino in Macau .” The DCCC repeated the charges in press releases that attacked Republicans Jim Renacci, Scott DesJarlais, and Jim Gerlach.

McHugh voted " yes " along with only 7 other Republicans on the American Clean Energy Act ( also known as Cap and Trade ) on June 26, 2009.

On June 3, 2006, the Florida Federation of Young Republicans officially adopted " Florida Federation of Young Professional Republicans " as an alternative name for promotions in a move to target Republicans who are beyond their mid-twenties.

At the Montana Republican State Convention in June 2006, the Montana Young Republicans changed their name to the Montana Republican Young Professionals.

President Harry S. Truman vetoed the Act, but enough Democrats joined with the Republicans to override the Presidential veto on June 23, 1947.