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.

* Patterson, James G. In the Wake of the Great Rebellion: Republican, Agrarianism and Banditry in Ireland After 1798 ( 2008 )

* 1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.

James Charles Evers ( born September 11, 1922 ), the older brother of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, is a leading civil rights spokesman within the Republican Party in his native Mississippi.

Loyalist murals often refer to historical events dating from the war between James II and William III in the late 17th century, whereas Republican murals usually refer to the more recent troubles.

As Bush lagged in the polls in the weeks preceding the August 1992 Republican National Convention, some Republican strategists ( led by Secretary of State James Baker ) viewed Quayle as a liability to the ticket and pushed for his replacement.

" Due to their opposition to Hamilton, Jefferson and James Madison organized and led the anti-administration party ( called Republican, and known later as Democratic-Republican ).

Already a leading player in state politics, he attended the Republican National Convention in 1884 and fought alongside the Mugwump reformers ; they lost to the Stalwart faction that nominated James G. Blaine.

Marshall's opponent in the general election was Republican Congressman James E. Watson, and the campaign focused on temperance and prohibition.

Ultimately he endorsed the Democratic nominees, James M. Cox as president and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as vice president, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge.

Representative John Quincy Adams had made a proposal in 1839, but there were no new proposals until December 14, 1863, when a bill to support an amendment to abolish slavery throughout the entire United States was introduced by Representative James Mitchell Ashley ( Republican, Ohio ).

This was soon followed by a similar proposal made by Representative James F. Wilson ( Republican, Iowa ).

In the 1856 election, he cast his first presidential vote for the Democratic candidate James Buchanan, saying he was really voting against Fremont, the Republican presidential candidate.

The candidate running against Democrat James Traficant, a conservative Democrat with no Republican opposition that year, received 9 %.

Congressman James Madison started the party among Representatives in Philadelphia ( the national capital ) as the Republican party ; then he, Jefferson, and others reached out to include state and local leaders around the country, especially New York and the South.

** United States presidential election, 1920: Republican Warren G. Harding defeats Democrat James M. Cox and Socialist Eugene V. Debs, in the first national U. S. election in which women have the right to vote.

* November 4 – United States presidential election, 1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.

* 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.

Republican governor James R. Thompson reorganized low-profile departments before his re-election in 1978.

In 1880, the Ohio legislature elected him to the U. S. Senate ; in that same year, the leading Republican presidential contenders – Ulysses S. Grant, James G. Blaine and John Sherman – failed to garner the requisite support at their convention.

Since James G. Blaine moved from the House to the United States Senate, Garfield became the minority Republican floor leader of the House.

However, at the outset of the Republican convention, a deadlock ensued between supporters of former President Grant, James G. Blaine, and Sherman ; the delegates began to look to Garfield as an optimal compromise choice.

Between his election and his inauguration, Garfield was occupied with assembling a cabinet that would establish peace between the warring factions of the Republican Party, led by U. S. Sen. Roscoe Conkling and James G. Blaine.

The popularity of the South Park cartoon program led to the creation of the term South Park Republican by Andrew Sullivan, and later the book South Park Conservatives by Brian C. Anderson.

Before 2010, commissioners were elected on a nonpartisan basis, but Sullivan County's commission election became a partisan election in 2010 after the county Republican Party decided to conduct a primary election for commission seats.

The Republican and Democratic parties equally control politics at the local level in Sullivan County.

* Ray Sullivan, fictional Governor and Republican nominee for Vice President on the series The West Wing

Pawlenty returned to his original ambition and won a hard-fought and narrow victory over Sullivan in the Republican party primary election.

On 22 June 1922, two London-based volunteers of the Irish Republican Army, Reginald Dunne and Joseph O ' Sullivan, assassinated Wilson outside his house at 36 Eaton Square at approximately 2. 20pm.

State Republican Party chairman Kirk Sullivan told the paper that the race appeared to be closer than normal because of a strong national trend against the Republicans.

Sullivan was a Republican member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1995 to 2002, where he served as the Minority Whip.

Sullivan entered the Republican primary for his seat running against the incumbent governor Frank Keating's wife, Cathy, in the Republican primary.

On October 3, 2008, Sullivan was one of two Oklahoma Republican congressman to vote for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 which created the Troubled Assets Relief Program.

In December 2011, Sullivan was named a co-chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee's most significant fundraising effort of the 2012 election cycle, their annual March dinner.

On June 26, 2012, Representative Sullivan was defeated in the Republican primary election by Jim Bridenstine.

Nonetheless, after a hard-fought campaign, Sullivan defeated Republican nominee Peter K. Simpson.

Sullivan ran for the U. S. Senate in 1994, but lost 59-39 % to then-Representative Craig L. Thomas, largely a part of the national Republican wave of 1994.

* 8 April-Patrick Joseph Sullivan, mayor of Casper, Wyoming and Republican member of the United States Senate from Wyoming ( born 1865 ).

Eventually becoming a Kingsport and Johnson City based real estate development and insurance company owner ( starting Kingsport Development Company, Inc .), and bank executive following World War II, Quillen also was elected as a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1954, serving four terms from a district in Sullivan County.

Their only daughter, Mary Hansen Mead ( 1935 – 1996 ), was the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1990 against popular Democratic Governor Michael J. Sullivan of Douglas in Converse County.

In the seventh season of the show, Congressman Santos and former Secretary McGarry run against Senator Arnold Vinick of California, the Republican Party's Presidential nominee, and his running mate, Governor Ray Sullivan of West Virginia.

* Sean Sullivan, retired submarine commander, former commanding officer of the Naval Submarine Base New London, and Republican candidate for the United States Congress in Connecticut's 2nd congressional district in 2008

He defeated the Republican candidate, Edward Sullivan, in the general election.

On the series The West Wing Cullen played Ray Sullivan, a fictional former State Attorney General and governor of West Virginia and the Republican nominee for Vice President.

All three of the immediate past presidents of the Maine Township Regular Republican Organization, Sean Sullivan, Jim Smith and Nicholas Milissis, publicly declared their support of Mulligan in a letter to the press ..

In 1872, Tremain was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third United States Congress, defeating the incumbent Samuel Sullivan Cox.