Politically, Carroll County is a Republican stronghold in a historically Democratic state.

In the 2008 presidential election, East Carroll Parish cast 2, 267 votes ( 63. 7 percent ) for the successful Democrat Barack Obama of Illinois to 1, 254 votes ( 35. 2 percent ) for the Republican nominee, John S. McCain of Arizona.

Council members whose terms end in 2013 are Republican Devin Rhyne of Ward I and Democrat Carroll Heavner of Ward III.

With Democratic incumbents Marianne Bolduc and Steve Conti not running for seats in the November 2011 general election, Republican newcomers Theodore Davis ( 622 votes ) and Steven Schleim ( 568 ) defeated Democrats James M. Carroll ( 475 ) and William Connelly ( 542 ).

Carroll went on to defeat Republican Jim Host in the general election for lieutenant governor.

In the general election, Carroll faced Republican Robert E. Gable, a coal company owner from central Kentucky.

Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr. ( July 24, 1940December 7, 2005 ) was a U. S. Republican Party politician who served as 112th Governor of South Carolina from 1987 to 1995.

They had two sons, Carroll Campbell III and Mike Campbell, the former of whom unsuccessfully sought the 2010 Republican nomination for SC's 1st congressional district ( map ) to succeed Representative Henry Brown ; and the latter of whom was an unsuccessful candidate for South Carolina Lieutenant Governor in 2006.

* Carroll Campbell ( Republican ), 51 %

* Carroll Campbell ( Republican ), 69 %

After cruising to reelection in 1982 and 1984, Spence won by only 7 percent in 1986, in which year Carroll Campbell became the second Republican to win the South Carolina governorship since Reconstruction.

In 1987 and 1991, the state elected and reelected Governor Carroll Campbell, another Republican.

Incumbent Republican Governor Mark Sanford was running for re-election against Democratic State Senator Tommy Moore and became only the third Republican governor in South Carolina to win a second term ( Robert Kingston Scott and Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. were the others ).

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Reagan Alumni Association, the Federalist Society, the Republican National Lawyers Association, the President's Club of the Heritage Foundation, the President's Cabinet of the Richard Nixon Foundation, the University Club of Washington, the John Carroll Society, Saint Mary's Church in Alexandria, Virginia, the Board of Trustees of the John Paul II Fellowship, the Review Board of the Diocese of Arlington, and the Sovereign Military order of Malta.

* Terry L. Punt ( born 1949 ), Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate

Roosevelt appointed numerous African Americans to federal office, such as Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans, Louisiana, a leader of the Black and Tan Republican faction whom he named register of the federal land office.

He formed his political army from the non-Irish elements, and even persuaded black politician William L. Dawson to switch from the Republican to the Democratic Party.

The first victim was Pierre Popie, attorney and president of the People's Republican Movement ( Mouvement Républicain Populaire, MRP ), who stated on TV, " French Algeria is dead " ( L ’ Algérie française est morte ).

In 1966, Pilkinton was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, having narrowly been defeated by the Republican Maurice L. Britt, the running-mate of Winthrop Rockefeller, who won the first of his two two-year terms as governor that year.

By 1932, despite his longstanding association with the Republican Party, he openly supported Democratic presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, staging a " Motion Picture and Electrical Parade Sports Pageant " at L. A. Stadium in Roosevelt's honor.

* Dick L. Hess, Republican, Pennsylvania's 78th Representative District

Gordon L. Park represented Uinta County as a Republican in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1993-1996.

* Controller, Walter L. Griffith, Jr., Republican

* County Executive: L. Brooks Patterson ( Republican )

In the Kentucky House of Representatives it is in the 89th District and has been represented by Republican Marie L. Rader since 1997.

A GOP candidate even won a seat on the Tensas Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body, with the victory of Emmett L. Adams, Jr., in District 1 over fellow Republican Patrick Glass.

" Pat " Teague ( 1904-1975 ), former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, unseated in 1966 by Republican Danny L. Patrick ; a former turkey farmer in Berryville

Robert L. Frye, the Republican candidate for state education superintendent in 1972, began his educational career at Reeves High School in the late 1940s.

Robert L. Frye, the Republican nominee for state education superintendent in 1972, was a former principal at Dubberly High School.

* Gordon L. Park ( 1937 – 2010 ), a Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1993 – 1996, was born in Lexington.

* Congressman William L. " Bill " Jenkins, born 1936, was the Republican Representative from Tennessee's First Congressional District from 1997-2007.

Graham was re-elected in 1982 with 65 percent of the vote, having defeated the Republican nominee, U. S. Representative L. A.

The Junii took credit for its abolition by their ancestor L. Junius Brutus, traditionally Rome's Republican founder and first consul.

Usher L. Burdick ( Nonpartisan Republican )

He notably supported Republican Edward L. Jackson, a Klan member, when he ran ( successfully ) for governor in 1924.

From the election of Thomas Metcalfe in 1828 to the expiration of John L. Helm's term in 1851, only one Democrat held the office of governor: John Breathitt, who died a year and a half into his term and was succeeded in office by his lieutenant governor, James Turner Morehead, a National Republican.

The only Republican to be elected Governor between 1876 and 1972 was Daniel L. Russell, who served from 1897-1901.

However, in 1970, after a tight race against Republican Congressman Richard L. Roudebush and a ballot recount, Hartke won a third term by 4, 200 votes.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

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.

With Republican presidents, he fought fair.

As a former President, however, Mr. Eisenhower abandoned this role to engage in partisan sniping during a New York Republican rally, and generally missed his target.

Contrarily, Republican `` volunteers '' go their separate ways, and thus far have given no indication that they'd be willing to join forces under a single directorate, except in the most loose-knit fashion.

Since the obvious is not always true, the Republican National Committee wisely analyzed its defeat of last autumn and finds that it occurred, as suspected, in the larger cities.

Republican research broke down the vote in Philadelphia.

The task force might make a start in Washington with Republican congressional leaders.

The present Republican leadership as practiced by Mundt, Goldwater, Bridges, Dirksen, et al, is repeating the errors of the party leadership of the 1930s.

In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.

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.

One may be sure the present Republican congressional leadership hasn't meant to repeat this error.

The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care.

A Republican survey says Kennedy won the '60 election on the religious issue.

They plot the open interest curves, rainfall curves, and they even divide Democratic congressmen by Republican congressmen.

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 ''.

The state had elected Republican candidates in the past two years.

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.

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.

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.

O'Banion accepted his platinum watch and the tributes to his loyalty, and proceeded with the bigger and better Republican deal.

The result was a landslide for the Republican candidates.

But even while sparring furiously with Republican politicians, he displays a deep and awesome veneration for anyone with cultural attainments.

Senate Republican Leader Dirksen ( Ill. ) and House Republican Leader Charles Halleck ( Ind. ) said the message did not persuade them to change their opposition to compulsory medical insurance.