The American Republicans and the Republicans both nominated Lieutenant-Governor Turner for governor.

When, in 1881, the Republicans nominated a slate of particularly disreputable machine politicians, the Democrats saw the opportunity to gain the votes of disaffected Republicans by nominating a more honest candidate.

The Republicans convened in Chicago and nominated former Speaker of the House James G. Blaine of Maine for president on the fourth ballot.

Associate Justice Abe Fortas was nominated to position of Chief Justice of the United States, but his nomination was filibustered by Senate Republicans in 1968.

In 1860, many former Whigs who had not joined the Republicans regrouped as the Constitutional Union Party, which nominated only a national ticket.

When the Republicans in June 1896 nominated former Ohio Governor William McKinley for president and passed at his request a platform strongly supporting the gold standard, a number of " Silver Republicans " walked out of the convention.

The breach with White came because White supported the breakaway Liberal Republicans, reformists who nominated Horace Greeley for President.

The Republicans nominated Senator Warren G. Harding, a former newspaper man ; in turn, the Democrats chose newspaper publisher and Governor James M. Cox.

As a compromise, the Republicans nominated Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, an American candidate.

In 1832 the National Republicans unanimously nominated Clay for the presidency.

In 1860 the Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln for president, who won the presidency and then ran for reelection in 1864.

This fissure in the Republican Party divided the party into two factions: the anti-Lincoln Radical Republicans, who nominated Frémont, and the pro-Lincoln Republicans.

Both the Republicans and the Democrats nominated him each time he ran for judge, a position he held continuously from 1863 to 1906.

The incumbent in 1880, President Rutherford Hayes, had no interest in seeking a second term ; after 36 ballots, the Republicans nominated Ohio Representative James Garfield.

The death of Senator Brien McMahon later that year however created a vacancy and this time Republicans nominated Bush.

Lincoln and Douglas were both nominated for president in 1860 ( by the Republicans and Northern Democrats, respectively ), and their earlier debates helped define their respective positions in that election, but they did not meet during the Presidential campaign.

The Republicans actually took the same position that the Democrats had taken earlier, believing that the election was illegal they nominated no candidates.

Republicans nominated John M. Robsion, Jr. to oppose Combs, and when Democratic President Harry S. Truman came to Paducah to campaign for Combs, Chandler refused to welcome him to the state, a customary duty of the sitting governor.

The Prohibition Party has nominated a candidate for president in every election since 1872, and is thus the longest-lived American political party after the Democrats and Republicans.

Rockefeller Republicans suffered a crushing defeat in 1964 when conservatives captured control of the Republican party and nominated Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona for President.

Some 117 Republicans were nominated, elected, or appointed to the most lucrative and important state executive positions, judgeships, and federal legislative and judicial offices between 1868 and 1881.

McClellan's letter incensed Radical Republicans, who successfully pressured Lincoln to appoint John Pope, a Republican, as head of the new Army of Virginia.

As they had been shepherded to passage in the Virginia House of Delegates by John Taylor of Caroline, they became part of the heritage of the " Old Republicans ".

At the Federal level, the two U. S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison ; Paris is part of Texas ' US Congressional 4th District, which is currently represented by Republican Ralph M. Hall.

Grant's curt response to Johnson in the Stanton matter increased his popularity with the Radical Republicans ; John Weiss Forney, editor of the Washington Daily Chronicle, who had paved the way for previous presidential nominations, took up the effort for Grant's nomination, by first inquiring with Rawlins about Grant's interest in the presidency.

The Republicans who formed the Whig party, led by Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, drew on a Jeffersonian tradition of compromise and balance in government, national unity, territorial expansion, and support for a national transportation network and domestic manufacturing.

Another remnant led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay formed the National Republicans in 1828 ; It held its first convention in late 1831 in Baltimore.

" In New York, the candidates for governor were John Jay, a Federalist, and incumbent George Clinton, who was allied with Jefferson and the Republicans.

Furthermore, several Speakers became leading figures in their political parties ; examples include Democrats Samuel J. Randall, John Griffin Carlisle, and Charles F. Crisp, and Republicans James G. Blaine, Thomas Brackett Reed, and Joseph Gurney Cannon.

For the 112th Congress, Republican John Boehner was unanimously designated Speaker-elect by House Republicans and was elected the 61st Speaker of the House.

The county is generally considered a " red county ," with Republicans usually outvoting Democrats in most statewide and national offices ( for instance, in 2004 George W. Bush defeated John Kerry in Cattaraugus County by a 60-40 margin ) though Bill Clinton won the Cattaraugus County very narrowly in 1996.

Old Republicans, represented by John Taylor of Caroline and John Randolph of Roanoke characterized the Second Bank of the United States as both constitutionally illegitimate and a direct threat to Jeffersonian agrarianism, state sovereignty and the institution of slavery, expressed by Taylor's statement that "... if Congress could incorporate a bank, it might emancipate a slave ".

It was believed that President John Quincy Adams ’ s supporters in New England, the National Republicans, or as they would later be called, Whigs, would uniformly oppose the bill for this reason and that the southern legislators could then withdraw their support, killing the legislation while blaming it on New England:

* Republicans: 30 – 1 ( the lone nay was Strom Thurmond ; John Tower who did not vote was paired as a nay vote with Eugene McCarthy who would have voted in favor.

Republicans had responded to the attacks by assassinating UVF leaders, including John Bingham, William " Frenchie " Marchant, Trevor King and, allegedly, Leslie Dallas.

John Hughes and I are among the only Republicans in the picture business, and John Hughes put me in the movie ", Stein said.

The district was one of the seats that the Democrats lost to the Republicans during the election ; before the 2010 election, congressman John M. Spratt had represented the district since 1983 but was defeated 55 % to 45 % in 2010.

The trend continued in 2004 when Republican Bill Farnham defeated the Democratic incumbent, Eastern District County Commissioner Gary Carmack, and Republicans Don Mayhew and Loretta Rouse defeated two long-term Democratic incumbents, County Surveyor John Mackey and County Public Administrator Paula Long Weber.

The Republicans fared better still in the 2008 election, in which John McCain received 43, 269 votes ( 85 % of the total ) to just 6, 681 votes ( 13 %) for Democrat Barack Obama.

Federally, San Juan Capistrano is located in California's 44th and 48th congressional districts, which have Cook PVIs of R + 6 and R + 8 respectively and is represented by Republicans Ken Calvert and John Campbell respectively.

In the state legislature Sedco Hills is located in the 36th Senate District, represented by Republican Dennis Hollingsworth, and in the 64th and 66th Assembly Districts, represented by Republicans John J. Benoit and Kevin Jeffries respectively.

In the state legislature Wildomar is located in the 36th Senate District, represented by Republican Dennis Hollingsworth, and in the 64th and 66th Assembly Districts, represented by Republicans John J. Benoit and Kevin Jeffries respectively.

Since becoming a city in 1960, the political power was balanced until the late 1960s and early 1970s when the Republicans led by Mayor Anthony DePaola dominated until 1983 when Democrat John Jaworski was elected mayor.

At the Federal level, the two U. S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison ; Waxahachie is part of Texas ' US Congressional 6th District, which is currently represented by Republican Joe Barton.