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.

As of 2011, its state senator is Republican Janéa Holmquist Newbry, and its two state representatives are Republicans Judy Warnick and Bill Hinkle.

The Republican coalition elected numerous African Americans to local, state, and national offices ; though they did not dominate any electoral offices, black men as representatives voting in state and federal legislatures marked a drastic social change.

After the Southern states seceded in 1861 and most of their representatives resigned from Congress, the Republican Congress passed the bill ; it was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862.

Opponents of restoring voting rights are almost always politically conservative representatives, and since the President Nixon's Southern Strategy ( 1968 and 1972 ) almost exclusively Republican.

Democratic state representatives of the county include Barbara Ballard ( 44th District ), and Paul Davis ( 46th District ), Ann Mah ( 53rd District ); Republican state representatives include Terri Lois Gregory ( 10th District ), Anthony Brown ( 38th District ), Tom Sloan ( 45th District ), and William Prescott ( 59th District ).

The parish was one of several new ones established by the state legislature during Reconstruction ; in 1873 it was formed from land that had belonged to Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson and Union parishes to create one in which newly elected representatives might have more ties to the Republican Party.

The legislative elections on August 28, 1910 had elected 14 new representatives ( resulting in an assembly that was divided: 9 % Republican, 58 % Government and 33 % Opposition ) which helped the revolutionary cause, but which made little importance since the Setubal Congress ( on 24 – 25 April 1909 ) had determined that the Republicans would take power by force.

La Follette's other son, Robert M. La Follette, Jr., succeeded his father as Senator where he led the Progressive caucus composed of Progressive, Farm-Labor, American Labor, and various Republican and Democratic Party congressional representatives.

Also in the House, the Committee on Committees assigns Republican representatives to their committee ( s ), while the Steering and Policy Committee is in charge of assigning Democratic representatives to committees.

In 1952, committee membership was expanded to include the state party chairs of states that voted Republican in the preceding presidential election, have a Republican majority in their congressional delegation ( U. S. representatives and senators ), or have Republican governors.

Olasky ’ s most famous book is The Tragedy of American Compassion, which in 1992 Newt Gingrich distributed to incoming Republican representatives of the 104th Congress.

The ISO does not support the Republican party or Democratic party, both of which it views as political representatives of corporate power.

They had previously been the sole Northern Ireland representatives of the Socialist Republican Party and the Irish Labour Party respectively, so a common joke was that " two one-man parties had become one two-man party ".

Three Republican representatives then changed their votes.

All of these Reconstruction era black senators and representatives were members of the Republican Party.

Ross found support in Congress from individuals in the National Republican Party, such as senators Henry Clay, Theodore Frelinghuysen, and Daniel Webster and representatives Ambrose Spencer and David ( Davy ) Crockett.

However, a conference of rank-and-file Republican representatives disapproved of the choice of Dreier in such a senior position largely because many conservative Republican House members believe that Dreier is too politically moderate.

Unlike the other Cuban American representatives from Miami, Diaz-Balart is a member of the conservative Republican Study Committee.

In 2005 the National Journal ranked him as the most liberal Republican Representative in New Jersey and more liberal than most of New York's Republican Congressional representatives.

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.

Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.

His fellow students — there were 38 in all — included young Samuel I. Hayakawa ( later to become a Republican member of the U. S. Senate ), Ralph Moriarty deBit ( later to become the spiritual teacher Vitvan ) and Wendell Johnson ( founder of the Monster Study ).

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.

Image: French Republican Guard cavalry DSC03123. JPG | Cavalry of the French Republican Guard — May 8, 2005 celebrations

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.

Controlled by the anti-corruption parties — the populist Guatemalan Republican Front ( FRG ) headed by Ríos Montt, and the center-right National Advancement Party ( PAN ) — the new Congress began to move away from the corruption that characterized its predecessors.

Guinea's armed forces are divided into five branches — army, navy, air force, the paramilitary National Gendarmerie and the Republican Guard — whose chiefs report to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is subordinate to the Minister of Defense.

He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times — in 1884, 1888, and 1892 — and was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1861 to 1913.

The Republican armies in Spain — which were resisting a Carlist insurrection — pronounced their allegiance to Alfonso in the winter of 1874 – 1875, led by Brigadier General Martínez-Campos.

In the end, Ashcroft won 57 percent of the vote and carried 106 counties — then the largest Republican gubernatorial victory in Missouri history.

The very citadel of spoils politics, the hitherto impregnable fortress that had existed unshaken since it was erected on the foundation laid by Andrew Jackson, was tottering to its fall under the assaults of this audacious and irrepressible young man .... Whatever may have been the feelings of the ( fellow Republican party ) President ( Harrison ) — and there is little doubt that he had no idea when he appointed Roosevelt that he would prove to be so veritable a bull in a china shop — he refused to remove him and stood by him firmly till the end of his term.

When Roosevelt realized that lowering the tariff would risk severe tensions inside the Republican Party — pitting producers ( manufacturers and farmers ) against merchants and consumers — he stopped talking about the issue.

He favored a limited number of troops to be stationed in the South — sufficient numbers to protect Southern Freedmen, suppress the violent tactics of the Ku Klux Klan ( KKK ), and prop up Republican governors, but not so many as to create resentment in the general population.

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

Sean Ó Brádaigh continued in this position for almost a decade, when he was succeeded by Danny Morrison, who had been editor of An Phoblacht / Republican News.

Ó Brádaigh and several supporters walked out and immediately set up Republican Sinn Féin ( RSF ); more than 100 people assembled at Dublin's West County Hotel and formed the new organization.

Republican Sinn Féin's relationship with the Continuity IRA is similar to the relationship between Sinn Féin and the Provisional IRA when Ó Brádaigh was Sinn Féin's President.

* Republican Sinn Féin was formed in 1986 by former Sinn Féin leader Ruairí Ó Brádaigh who led traditional republicans in a break with Sinn Féin over the ending of the policy of abstention in relation to elections to Dáil Éireann.

In November 2009, Des Dalton replaced Ó Brádaigh as leader of Republican Sinn Féin.

Ó Móráin was born in County Mayo, hailing from a strong Republican family and family members had fought in the Irish War of Independence and in the Irish Civil War on the pro-Treaty side.

Kieran ( or Ciarán ) Doherty TD ( Irish: Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, 16 October 1955 – 2 August 1981 ) was an Irish republican hunger striker, Teachta Dála and a volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ).

Daly took a notably harder line against the Irish Republican Army than his predecessor, Tomás Ó Fiaich.

* 75 Years of Fianna Fáil, the Republican Party-with Brian Lenihan TD, Minister Mary O ' Rourke TD, Deputy Leader of Fianna Fáil, Minister Éamon Ó Cuív TD & Dr Martin Mansergh, Special Advisor to the Taoiseach

The larger group led by Gerry Adams abandoned abstentionism, while Republican Sinn Féin ( RSF ), led by Ruairí Ó Brádaigh retained it.