Lansing currently lies mostly within the boundaries of Michigan's 8th congressional district, which has been represented by Republican congressman Mike Rogers since 2001.

The small portion of the city that extends into Eaton County is located in Michigan's 7th congressional district, which has been represented by Republican congressman Tim Walberg since 2011.

Clemens is a member of the Republican Party and donated money to Texas congressman Ted Poe during his 2006 campaign.

He was a rarity in politics at the time — a truly senior Republican congressman from a former Confederate state.

Mizell was elected as a three-term Republican congressman from North Carolina, serving from 1969-1975.

Former Illinois congressman and House Republican party minority leader Bob Michel caused a minor stir in 1988, when on the USA Today television program he fondly recalled minstrel shows in which he had participated as a young man and expressed his regret that they had fallen out of fashion.

The county is named after former congressman and 1884 Republican presidential nominee James G. Blaine ( 1830-93 ).

* Charles Henry Morgan — Missouri congressman as both a Democrat and a Republican in the period 1875-1911.

He was an attorney who had moved to Philadelphia after serving as the last black Republican congressman representing North Carolina ’ s 2nd Congressional district.

* William Lawrence, Republican congressman involved with the attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson

* Homer D. Angell, Republican U. S. congressman 1939 – 1955

* Mitchell Jenkins, former Republican U. S. congressman of Pennsylvania who lived in Shavertown toward the end of his life

* Abe Goff, politician, Republican congressman from Idaho

One Republican congressman who voted against the initial bill accused Pelosi of unethically benefiting Del Monte Foods ( headquartered in her district ) by the exclusion of the territory, where Del Monte's StarKist Tuna brand is a major employer.

Christopher Shays, the former Republican congressman representing Connecticut's Fourth District, was born in Darien ( and now lives in Bridgeport ).

* Kenny Hulshof, former Republican 2008 Missouri gubernatorial candidate and congressman who represented the Missouri's 9th Congressional District was born in Sikeston in 1958.

* Charles Augustus Crow, a former Republican one-term congressman from Caruthersville, was born on a farm near Sikeston in 1873.

* Ralph Emerson Bailey, a former Republican one-term congressman, lived in Sikeston and is buried in the city cemetery in Sikeston.

Republican congressman Bob Livingston had been widely expected to become Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the next Congressional session, then just weeks away, until Flynt revealed the affair.

" Mr. Castellani succeeds Billy Tauzin, a former Republican congressman from Louisiana.

The clear leader of the so-called revolution was Republican congressman Newt Gingrich, who became Speaker of the House as a result of the victory.

Pitted against Francis Shunk Brown, the candidate of Vare ’ s Philadelphia machine, and Thomas Phillips, a former two-term congressman from western Pennsylvania, who was enthusiastically supported by the state ’ s “ wet ” forces, Pinchot overcame a deficit of nearly 200, 000 votes in traditionally Republican Philadelphia to pull into a 12, 000-vote lead on election night.

She narrowly won the Arizona gubernatorial election of 2002 with 46 percent of the vote, succeeding Republican Jane Dee Hull and defeating her Republican opponent, former congressman Matt Salmon, who received 45 percent of the vote.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mitchell was for using it, Jones against, and Sen. Wayne Dumont Jr. R-Warren did not mention it when the three Republican gubernatorial candidates spoke at staggered intervals before 100 persons at the Park Hotel.

Sandman announced the appointment of Mrs. Harriet Copeland Greenfield of 330 Woodland Ave., Westfield, as state chairman of the Republican Women for Jones Committee.

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.

Sheeran, a lawyer and former FBI man is running against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals.

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.

Privately, they also admitted that their hopes for Clint Anderson's three-fifths modification depended on none other than Republican Richard Nixon.

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

After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Despite his inelegant appearance — many in the audience thought him awkward and even ugly — Lincoln demonstrated an intellectual leadership that brought him into the front ranks of the party and into contention for the Republican presidential nomination.

Republican editor Horace Greeley of the highly influential New York Tribune fell for the ploy, and Lincoln refuted it directly in a shrewd letter of August 22, 1862.

Lincoln and the Republican party mobilized support for the draft throughout the North, and replaced his losses.

Violence on behalf of Southern honor reached the floor of the Senate when a Southern Congressmen nearly beat to death Republican Charles Sumner when he ridiculed prominent slaveholders as pimps for slavery.

However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.

In Mexico, exiled Republican intellectuals extended the Annales approach, particularly from the Center for Historical Studies of El Colegio de México, the leading graduate studies institution of Latin America.

In his journal for November 6, 1860, he wrote: " At Town House, and cast my vote for Lincoln and the Republican candidates generally — the first vote I ever cast for a President and State officers.