At the 1856 Republican National Convention, Lincoln placed second in the contest to become the party's candidate for vice president.

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

* 2012 – The Republican National Convention takes place in Tampa Bay, Florida.

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.

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.

Lincoln was nominated in Chicago for the nation's presidency at the 1860 Republican National Convention and went on to defeat Douglas in the general election, setting the stage for the American Civil War.

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.

At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.

Years appear in writing as Roman numerals ( usually ), with epoch 22 September 1792, the beginning of the ' Republican Era ' ( the day the French First Republic was proclaimed, one day after the Convention abolished the monarchy ).

* Aengus Ó Snodaigh, IRA Convention meets, An Phoblacht / Republican News, 11 May 2000.

* 1920 – During the U. S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U. S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U. S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase " smoke-filled room ".

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.

He addressed the convention on July 15 at the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan and on August 21 at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas.

During the 1984 Convention, with Trent Lott as Republican Party Platform Committee Chairman, Congressmen Kemp and Newt Gingrich claimed control of the party platform to the consternation of G. O. P.

He also delivered remarks on free enterprise zones at the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas.

Before the 1992 Republican National Convention, Kemp and six prominent Republican conservatives prepared a controversial memo urging Bush to revise his economic policy.

Kemp was considered the star of the 1992 Republican National Convention.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

The Siege of the Alcázar in the Spanish Civil War, in which the Nationalists held out against a much larger Republican force for two months until relieved, shows that in some cases a citadel can be effective even in modern warfare ; a similar case is the Battle of Huế, where an NVA division held the citadel of Huế for 26 days against roughly their own numbers of much better-equipped US and South Vietnamese troops.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

General elections were held in 1931 to replace the government, with Republican and anticlerical candidates winning the majority of votes.

* 1854 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.

Undisputed is the fact that the first official meeting of the group that actually called itself " Republican " was held in Jackson under the Oaks on July 6, 1854.

Earlier meetings of groups that later formed the Republican Party were held in Ripon, Wisconsin ; Exeter, New Hampshire ; and Crawfordsville, Iowa, and all four cities bill themselves as the " Birthplace of the Republican Party.

His campaign was on an early positive course with many key early endorsements in New Hampshire, but Bush held the support of much of the Republican establishment in New York.

Cannon is also ( still ) the longest serving Republican House of Representatives member ever, the second longest serving Republican member of congress ever, as well as first member of congress, of either party, ever to surpass 40 years of service ( non-consecutive ), ending his career with 46 years of cumulative congressional service, a record that held until 1959.

As a result of that effort, the Puerto Rico Legislature approved a law regulating presidential primaries in 1979, the first of which was held in 1980, with George H. W. Bush winning the Republican primary and President Carter beating Senator Edward " Ted " Kennedy in a hard-fought Democratic primary.

The 2008 Republican presidential primary was slated to be held in February, while Democrats held their primary in June.

Hagelin threatened to sue the organizers of the National Issues Convention, a forum on social issues held in January 1996, if he was not allowed to participate along with the Republican and Democratic candidates.

The administration of Warren G. Harding followed the Republican platform approved at the 1920 Republican National Convention, which was held in Chicago.

Willkie asked Martin to take on the task of Republican National Committee chairman, a post that Martin held simultaneously with his House leadership role from 1940 – 1942.

** In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U. S. Republican Party is held.

General Ulysses S. Grant announced he was a Republican and was unanimously nominated on the first ballot as the party's standard bearer at the Republican convention in Chicago, Illinois, held on May 20-21, 1868.

He was indeed the front-runner going into the Republican Party convention in Chicago held on June 2-8.

On the other hand, he held a strong hand in the South and border states, and appealed to former Republican Mugwumps.

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

Republican Frémont condemned the Kansas – Nebraska Act and crusaded against the expansion of slavery, while Buchanan, a Democrat, warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war.

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.