In late August 1861, General John C. Frémont, the 1856 Republican presidential nominee, issued, without consulting Washington, a proclamation of martial law in Missouri.

* November 4 – U. S. presidential election, 1856: Democrat James Buchanan defeats former President Millard Fillmore, representing a coalition of " Know-Nothings " and Whigs, and John C. Frémont of the fledgling Republican Party, to become the 15th President of the United States.

The Republican Party nominated John C. Frémont of California as its first presidential candidate ; Senator William H. Seward sought, but failed to receive the Republican nomination.

A group of Republican dissidents nominated John C. Frémont who later withdrew and endorsed Lincoln.

Observing events from Europe, Karl Marx, who was ideologically sympathetic to Frémont, contemptuously regarded Seward as a " Republican Richelieu " and the " Demosthenes of the Republican Party " who had sabotaged Frémont's presidential ambitions.

One of the most notable beneficiaries of this wealth was the famed explorer and 1856 Republican presidential candidate, John C. Frémont, for whom the local hospital is named.

Fremont County was named for John Charles Frémont, an explorer of the American West, Senator from California, and 1856 Republican presidential candidate.

John Charles Frémont or Fremont ( January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890 ), was an American military officer, explorer, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.

This eyewitness account, together with others, were widely published during the presidential election of 1856, which featured John Frémont as the first anti-slavery Republican nominee versus Democrat James Buchanan.

Frémont was the first presidential candidate of the new Republican Party in 1856.

This fissure in the Republican Party divided the party into two factions: the anti-Lincoln Radical Republicans, who nominated Frémont, and the pro-Lincoln Republicans.

The county is one of the only counties to have given majorities to the both the first Republican candidate, John C. Frémont, and to John McCain.

He played a key role in 1856 in bringing forward John C. Frémont as a moderate Republican presidential nominee.

As a part of this process, Banks declined, as pre-arranged, the presidential nomination of those Know-Nothings, opposed to the spread of slavery, in favor of Republican Frémont.

He supported John C. Frémont of the newly established Republican Party in his presidential campaign in 1856, and later followed Abraham Lincoln's 1860 campaign.

In 1856-57 he was editor, and for part of the time was proprietor of the Racine Volksblatt, in which he advocated the election of presidential candidate John C. Frémont of the newly-founded Republican Party.

The most famous of the explorers was John Charles Frémont ( 1813 – 1890 ), a commissioned officer in the Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers with a talent for exploration and a genius at self-promotion that gave him the sobriquet of " Pathmarker of the West " and led him to the presidential candidate of the new Republican Party in 1856.

The same year his son-in-law, John C. Frémont, ran for President on the Republican Party ticket, but Benton was a party loyalist to the end, and voted Democratic, the Democratic candidate that year being James Buchanan.

Frémont was later elected one of the first U. S. senators from California and was the first presidential candidate of the new Republican Party in 1856.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

Buchanan won the nomination at the 1856 Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio and went on to win the Presidency over Republican John C. Frémont and Know Nothing candidate and former President Millard Fillmore.

Frémont was himself a prominent Republican with Missouri connections.

Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey condemned Lee as having " nothing to offer the debate on school violence except more violence and more hate.

Both Nationalist and Republican commentators have condemned this decision as " desertion ".

North Carolina Democrats condemned the legislature's " depraved villains, who take bribes every day ;" one local Republican officeholder complained, " I deeply regret the course of some of our friends in the Legislature as well as out of it in regard to financial matters, it is very embarrassing indeed.

The paper eventually provoked a reaction from several conservative American members of Congress, notably the Republican representatives Matt Salmon of Arizona and Tom DeLay of Texas who both condemned the study as advocating for the normalization of pedophilia ( in the process Delay confused the American Psychological Association with the American Psychiatric Association, an error also made by Schlessinger ).

While the initial reception was chilly, the full-fledged outbreak of the Korean War on June 25, 1950 removed any hope that Smith's views would prevail, as Republican candidates ran hard across the land that year on precisely the sort of accusations of disloyalty and treachery that Smith had condemned.

The Republican platform pledged to end the unpopular war in Korea, to fire all " the loafers, incompetents and unnecessary employees " at the State Department, condemned the Roosevelt and Truman administrations ' economic policies, supported retention of the Taft-Hartley Act, and pledged to bring an end to ´" Communist Subversion " in the United States.

He also condemned what he considered " fearmongering " from the Republican party, as well as calling former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin " a useless twat ".

Republican Sen. Rod Grams eventually condemned Finkelstein's negative ads against Wellstone as excessive ; however, his client ( former Sen. Rudy Boschwitz ) came closer that year than any GOP challenger to defeating a Democratic incumbent.

Three months later he was tried, condemned and executed by Republican troops in Noirmoutier.

Roosevelt rejected the report, noting that the subcommittee's two Republican members had condemned him while the one Democrat issued a minority report.

The nascent Republican Party sought to capitalize on the scandal of " Bleeding Kansas ".

In that year Kansas, a Republican state, voted down two separate referenda granting suffrage to blacks and women, respectively.

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp from New York for Vice President.

* August 19 – U. S. President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City.

* Republican River, a river in Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas in the United States

The Republican Convention, held in Kansas City, Missouri from June 12 to June 15, nominated Hoover on the first ballot.

Roosevelt's Republican opponent was Governor Alf Landon of Kansas, a political moderate.

In 1968, Dole defeated Kansas Governor William H. Avery for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate to succeed retiring Senator Frank Carlson, subsequently being elected.

) and was widely considered to be one of the few Kansas Republicans who could bridge the gap between the moderate and conservative wings of the Kansas Republican Party.

Bob Dole ( far left ) at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City with ( from left ) Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, President Gerald Ford, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Susan Ford and Betty Ford

Historically, the Pawnee lived along outlying tributaries of the Missouri River: the Platte, Loup and Republican rivers in present-day Nebraska and in northern Kansas.

* Non-invasive imagery of a Pawnee archaeological site ; Non-destructive imaging techniques are used to map the archaeological remains of a late 18th and early 19th century Pawnee village site located on the Republican River in north central Kansas.

James Ronald (" Jim ") Ryun ( born April 29, 1947 ) is an American former track athlete and politician, who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, representing the 2nd District in Kansas.

In the Kansas Republican primary on August 5, 2008, he was defeated by Kansas State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins.

He was an energetic opponent of slavery and his speech attacking the pro-slavery Lecompton Legislature in Kansas became the most widely requested Republican campaign document in the election.

Charles Curtis ( January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936 ) was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States ( 1929 – 1933 ).

As an attorney, Curtis entered political life early, winning multiple terms from his district in Topeka, Kansas, starting in 1892 as a Republican to the US House of Representatives.

In the Kansas Senate it is currently represented by Republican Tim Huelskamp.

The two U. S. Senators from Kansas are Republican Senators Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran.

The most affluent county in Kansas, Johnson County is solidly Republican.

Most Johnson County Republicans identify themselves as moderates, the more socially progressive and fiscally conservative faction of the Kansas Republican Party.

June 24, 1947 flood of the Republican River on the border of Jewell County, Kansas and Republic County, Kansas near Hardy, Nebraska and Webber, Kansas, just south of Nebraska NE-8 on Kansas 1 Rd / CR-1 bridge over the Republican River.