In 2010, a lawsuit filed in 2004 by the Log Cabin Republicans ( LCR ), the nation's largest Republican gay organization, went to trial.

This process did not yet lead to formal party organization, but later, the faction led by Andrew Jackson would evolve into the Democratic Party, while the factions led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay would become the National Republican Party and then the Whig Party.

It was a precursor to Clan na Gael, a sister organization to the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

The Moral Majority was a relatively early supporter of Reagan, with Falwell announcing the organization ’ s endorsement of Reagan before the Republican convention.

* The John Ericsson Republican League of Illinois is a Swedish-American partisan organization.

This resulted in the " Stone's Prairie Riot " on August 25, 1860, at which the Republican Party para-military organization, the " Wide Awakes ", confronted armed supporters of the Democratic Party.

Nelson invited Republican Representative Paul N “ Pete ” McCloskey to serve as his co-chair and they incorporated a new non-profit organization, Environmental Teach-In, Inc., to stimulate participation across the country.

The four Republican Congressmen, joined by Senator Tom Coburn ( R-OK ) and Congressman Patrick McHenry ( R-NC ), then wrote IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman on November 16, 2009, asking that CAIR be investigated for excessive lobbying and failing to register as a lobbying organization.

Through the months leading up to the Republican convention in June in St. Louis, Hanna built his organization, paying all expenses, and applying the techniques of business to politics.

Republican Guard is the organization of a republic which serves to protect the president and the government.

But when the Republican Party's commitment to reform in the South gradually decreased, the GAR's mission became ill-defined and the organization floundered.

AIPAC describes itself as a bipartisan organization, and bills it lobbies for in Congress are always jointly sponsored by both a Democrat and Republican.

She also was a Congressional aide and in 2007, she was named executive director of the Republican Leadership Council, her mother's organization which promotes moderate Republicanism.

In Washington State in February 2012, the organization vowed to follow through on a commitment to spend $ 250, 000 to help defeat the Republican state senators who voted for a bill to give same-sex couples the right to marry should they seek office again.

Meeting at a school house in Ripon on February 28, 1854, some thirty opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act called for the organization of a new political party and suggested that Republican would be the most appropriate name ( to link their cause with the Declaration of Independence ).

The Endowment serves as the umbrella organization in which half of NED's funding is allocated annually to four main U. S. organizations: the American Center for International Labor Solidarity ( ACILS ), the Center for International Private Enterprise ( CIPE ), the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs ( NDI ), and the International Republican Institute ( IRI ), formerly known as the National Republican Institute for International Affairs.

After the Republican defeat in April 1939, the PCE was persecuted by the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco ( 1939 – 1975 ), although maintained the best organization among the opposition parties inside Spain.

Since the inception of the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Republican Brotherhood had planned on using the organization to stage an armed rebellion, with the goal of separating Ireland from the United Kingdom and establishing a republic.

GOPAC is a Republican ( GOP ) state and local political training organization.

It describes itself as " the premier training organization for Republican candidates in elected office on the state and local levels ".

had used ruthless tactics to convert the fine Republican state organization into a one-man Rockefeller machine, loyal not to party but to Rockefeller personally.

With the Democratic Party still discredited in the minds of many Northerners for its pro-Southern orientation and the Republican Party dominated by pro-gold interests, conditions had become ripe for the emergence of a new political organization to challenge the political hegemony of the two established parties of American politics.

After Coverdell's loss in 1977, he began working to develop a base for national Republican candidates and a viable statewide Republican Party organization.

Republican research broke down the vote in Philadelphia.

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.

* July 31-August 3 – The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania nominates George W. Bush for U. S. President and Dick Cheney for Vice President.

** United States politics: The Republican Party begins its national convention in Philadelphia and nominates Wendell Willkie as its candidate for president.

AT & T used the coaxial link to transmit the Republican national convention in June 1940 from Philadelphia to New York City, where it was televised to a few hundred receivers over the NBC station.

The 926 Republican delegates to the Republican convention, which met in Philadelphia on June 19 – 21, renominated William McKinley by acclamation.

In the months leading up to the opening of the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the GOP was deeply divided between the party's isolationists, who wanted to stay out of the war at all costs, and the party's interventionists, who felt that the United Kingdom and her allies needed to be given all aid short of war to prevent the Germans from conquering all of Europe.

By the 20th century, Philadelphia had become known as " corrupt and contented ", with a complacent population and an entrenched Republican political machine.

Active in Republican politics, he was the Platform Committee chairman at the 1868 Republican National Convention in Chicago, he offered Vice President Schuyler Colfax's name for renomination at the 1872 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, and gave the nominating speech for Oliver H. P. Morton for President at the 1876 Republican National Convention in Cincinnati.

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

In July 2000, shortly before the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Bush campaign sources said Elizabeth Dole was on the short list to be named the vice-presidential nominee, along with Michigan Governor John Engler, New York Governor George Pataki, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, and former Missouri Senator John Danforth.

He also spoke at the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

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.

Osro Cobb, then the Republican state chairman in Arkansas, made a seconding speech for Stassen at the convention in Philadelphia, having been motivated by Stassen's promise if nominated to campaign actively in the South.

On May 3, 1844, the American Republican Party, a Protestant nativist group, held a meeting in a predominantly Irish part of the Kensington District, then a suburb of Philadelphia.

After dropping out of the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the The Philadelphia Inquirer, then known as the " Republican Bible of Pennsylvania ".

In 1856, Governor Ritner was a delegate to the first Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

Ironically, Stassen would move to Pennsylvania and be defeated as the Republican nominee for Mayor of Philadelphia in 1959, and as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1958 and 1966.

NBC affiliate W2XBS in New York City made the first telecast of a national party convention, of the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and soon the other two of the Big Three television networks soon followed.