As the 1954 congressional elections approached, and it became evident that the Republicans were in danger of losing their thin majority in both houses, Eisenhower was among those blaming the Old Guard for the losses, and took up the charge to stop suspected efforts by the right wing to take control of the GOP.

This continued to be his preference despite the armistice with Korea, Throughout his terms Eisenhower took a hard-line attitude toward China, as demanded by conservative Republicans, with the goal of driving a wedge between China and the Soviet Union.

Republicans took the capital and executed Maximilian in 1867, depriving France of the hoped-for Roman Catholic ally in North America.

The local Republicans protested bitterly and, once took statehood out of their platform, not bringing it back until the early 1920s.

Republicans took the issue to court and the Marion County Circuit Court granted an injunction removing the constitution from the 1912 ballot.

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 followers of Thomas Jefferson, the Jeffersonians took up the name " Republicans "; they preferred a decentralized agrarian republic in which the federal government had limited power.

Foreign affairs took a leading role in 1795 as the Republicans opposed the Jay Treaty with Britain, which was then at war with France.

Republicans outside the prison took the battle to the media and both sides fought for public support.

At the same time, the Republicans took two-thirds of the national Congressional seats.

From 1863 to 1869, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson ( who became president on April 14, 1865 ) took a moderate position designed to bring the South back to normal as soon as possible, while the Radical Republicans ( as they called themselves ) used Congress to block the moderate approach, impose harsh terms, and upgrade the rights of the Freedmen ( former slaves ).

Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, leader of the moderate Republicans, took affront at the black codes.

Concerned that President Johnson viewed Congress as an " illegal body " and was attempting to overthrow the government, Republicans in Congress took control of Reconstruction policies after the election of 1866.

Republicans took control of all Southern state governorships and state legislatures, except for Virginia.

When the Republicans took control of the Senate after the 1980 elections, Dole became chairman of the Finance Committee in 1981, serving until 1985.

The three Republicans on the Board were all elected in 2009, and took office in January 2010.

The Official split of Catholic Church and State (" Séparation de l ' Eglise et de l ' Etat ") took place in 1905, and this major reform emphazises the Laicist and anti-clericalist mood of French Radical Republicans in this period.

Republicans took the Town Council for the first time in 14 years in 2010, as Camille Ferraro, Mike Hughes and James Wendell swept the three seats that were up for election.

Louise Wilson and her team were voted out of office ( the Republicans took complete control of the Township Committee with the election of Ed Trzaska and Patricia Graham on November 2, 2010 ).

After Republicans took the majority in the Senate, Lott became Senate Majority Whip in 1995 and then Senate Majority Leader in 1996, upon the resignation of presidential nominee Bob Dole of Kansas.

He became Senate Majority Whip when the Republicans took control of the Senate in 1995, succeeding as Majority Leader in 1996 when Bob Dole resigned from the Senate to focus on his presidential campaign.

After the 2000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President Al Gore's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush took office and Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the majority once again.

In 1994, after the Republicans took control of the Senate, Stevens was appointed Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee.

The Republicans under Thomas Jefferson took control of the Federal government in 1801 with the election of Jefferson as President.

The governor's budget has often been approved with few changes, but since the Republicans took control of the state senate for the first time in 1999, approval has become a much more contentious process.

Bill Lueders, an advocate of transparency and Wisconsin's open records rules, said, " I'm pleased to see the Republicans making use of the open records law because they are as entitled to it as everyone else in the state.

Therefore, an undetermined number of Republicans cast ballots in the open Democratic primary election and chose the candidate who they believed would most likely lose the general election to their nominee, Howard " Bo " Callaway.

The longest-ever recorded vote was held in the early hours of November 22, 2003, when the Republican Party held a vote on a Medicare bill open for approximately 3 hours, during which President George W. Bush personally worked to convince two Republicans who had voted " No " to change their votes to " Aye.

During the first one hundred days of the 104th Congress, the Republicans pledged " to bring to the floor the following bills, each to be given a full and open debate, each to be given a clear and fair vote, and each to be immediately available for public inspection.

In the February 1990 special election ( open primary ), Miller ranked fourth, or last, among Republicans in the field, getting just 16 % of the vote.

In the open primary in September 1994, he ranked second among Republicans getting 21 % of the vote, behind State Representative Dick Mountjoy, who ranked first with 45 % of the vote.

He struggled to lead the state during the years when the White League, a white Democratic paramilitary organization, conducted an open campaign of violence and intimidation against Republicans, including freedmen, with the goals of regaining Democratic power and white supremacy.

In the United States, they may be dissatisfied Republicans or Democrats who are open to the idea of voting for other parties, or they could be people who have never had a strong affiliation with any political party, and will vote depending on certain things that influence them-e. g.

The Republicans sought to mend the Dutch apathy and established the first state university, which freely admitted native pribumi Indonesians Universitas Gadjah Mada, in Yogyakarta is named in honour of Gajah Mada and completed in 1945, and had the honour of the first Medicine Faculty freely open to natives.

Founded in the 2007 – 2008 election cycle by Congressmen Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan, the Young Guns Program began as an organization of House Republicans dedicated to electing open seat and challenger candidates nationwide.

The Republicans did defeat one incumbent, Chuck Robb ( D-Va .), and won an open seat in Nevada.

The Republicans picked-up open seats in Ohio and Kentucky and defeated incumbent Senator Carol Mosley-Braun ( D-IL ), but these were cancelled out by the Democrats ' gain of an open seat in Indiana and defeats of Senators Al D ' Amato ( R-NY ) and Lauch Faircloth ( R-NC ).

The Republicans captured the open seats in Alabama, Arkansas, and Nebraska.

Without losing any seats, the Republicans took open seats in Alabama, Alaska, and Florida, and defeated nine incumbents: Herman Talmadge ( D-GA ), Frank Church ( D-ID ), Birch E. Bayh II ( D-IN ), John Culver ( D-IA ), John A. Durkin ( D-NH ), Robert Morgan ( D-NC ), 1972 presidential nominee George S. McGovern ( D-SD ), Warren Magnuson ( D-WA ), and Gaylord Nelson ( D-WI ) ( see Reagan's coattails ).

Republicans took three open seats, including one in Minnesota ( a special election was called after the death of Hubert Humphrey ( D-MN )), as well as in Mississippi and South Dakota.

Republicans took open seats in Missouri and Rhode Island, and defeated five incumbents: John V. Tunney of California, Vance Hartke of Indiana, Joseph Montoya of New Mexico, Frank Moss of Utah, and Gale McGee of Wyoming.

Republicans took an open seat in Nevada, where Republican Paul Laxalt defeated Harry Reid by 624 votes.

" To that end, the Republicans placed thousands of Election Day robocalls to Democratic voters, telling them that the Democratic candidate, Martin O ' Malley, had won, although in fact the polls were still open for some two more hours.

The Republicans picked up one open seat in Ohio, and defeated incumbents Al Gore, Sr. of Tennessee, Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland, and Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut ( Dodd had been censured by the Senate for using campaign funds for personal use ).

Republicans won open seats in Arizona and Florida and defeated Democratic incumbents Joseph S. Clark of Pennsylvania, Daniel Brewster of Maryland, A. S. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma and Wayne Morse of Oregon, as well as taking the seat of Frank J. Lausche of Ohio, who had been defeated in a primary by John J. Gilligan.

Republicans won two open seats in Oregon and Tennessee and defeated incumbent Paul Douglas ( D-IL ).

The Republicans gained one open seat in Wyoming and the seat of incumbent J. Allen Frear ( D-DE ), while the Democrats gained an open seat in North Dakota.