I have supported the Democratic party in the last five campaigns.

While the Democratic platform followed the Peace wing of the party and called the war a " failure ", their candidate, General George B. McClellan, supported the war and repudiated the platform.

The Emperor Valens, however, revived Constantius ' policy and supported the " Homoian " party, exiling bishops and often using force.

His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.

From that time he supported the Democratic party and built a powerful political machine in Greene County.

He is by no means an impartial source: he is prejudiced against the Saracens, against the French, and against all the rivals or enemies of his master, including the Polein party which supported Conrad of Montferrat against Guy of Lusignan.

The African National Congress ( ANC ) is South Africa's governing political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994.

Although the party approved market economy and held favourable views on liberalizations and the privatization of state industries, however AN was to the left of Forza Italia on economic issues and sometimes supported statist policies.

* New Alliance ( Nuova Alleanza ), formerly called Right and Freedom ( Destra e Libertà ), headed by Altero Matteoli and Adolfo Urso, was formed by the staunchest supporters of Gianfranco Fini within the party and supported a liberal political agenda.

Clinton and most of his allies in the Democratic Leadership Committee strongly supported free trade measures ; there remained, however, strong disagreement within the party.

In 1976, candidates supported by BJU faculty and alumni captured the local Republican party with unfortunate short-term political consequences, but by 1980 the religious right and the " country club " Republicans had joined forces.

From the 1860s until the present, the party has supported strong central government, and supported the Catholic Church, especially its role as protector of the sanctity of the family, and opposed separation of church and state.

The main interwar conservative party was called the People's Party ( PP ), which supported constitutional monarchy and opposed the republican Liberal Party.

The Independent Greeks, a newly formed political party in Greece has also supported conservatism, particularly national and religious conservatism.

The Leningrad delegation, which supported Zinoviev, shouted " Long live the Central Committee of our party ".

Some called for a maximum of two term-periods in each party body, including the Central Committee, others supported Nikita Khrushchev's policy of compulsory turnover rules, which had been ended by the Brezhnev leadership.

Thus the party supported nearly all social liberalizations that have been implemented in the federal republic.

Fine Gael supported civil unions for same-sex couples from 2003, voting for the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2010, and the party approved a motion at its 2012 Ard Fheis to prioritise the consideration of same-sex marriage in the upcoming constitutional convention.

Except in the periods 1969 – 72 and 1976 – 82, when the Social Democratic party of Chancellor Brandt and Schmidt came in second in the elections, the Chancellor has always been the candidate of the largest party, usually supported by a coalition of two parties with a majority in the parliament.

Abandoning the Tories, James looked to form a ' King's party ' as a counterweight to the Anglican Tories, so in 1687 James supported the policy of religious toleration and issued the Declaration of Indulgence.

After 1257, the crown was contested between Richard of Cornwall, who was supported by the Guelph party, and Alfonso X of Castile, who was recognised by the Hohenstaufen party but never set foot on German soil.

Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.

Together, the party manages to assassinate Emperor Hawthorne in his throne room, banish the demon king Grah-hoth who was becoming a significant threat to the citizens of Exile, and secure an escape route to the surface.

The party at last reached Massawa on April 9, 1520, and reached the court of Lebna Dengel where he befriended several Europeans who had gained the favor of the Emperor, which included Pêro da Covilhã and Nicolao Branceleon.

The Kuomintang considers all minorities to be members of the Chinese Nation, Chiang Kai-shek, the Kuomintang party leader, considered all the minority peoples of China, including the Hui, as descedants of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor and semi mythical founder of the Chinese nation.

However, this dating was disputed by Hypatius of Ephesus, who met the monophysite party during the 532 meeting with Emperor Justinian I ; Hypatius denied its authenticity on the grounds that none of the Fathers or Councils ever cited or referred to it.

He was ordained as a subdeacon by Pope Marinus I, followed by his being raised to the deaconate by Pope Stephen V. During the pontificate of Pope Formosus ( 891 – 896 ), he was a member of the party of nobles who supported the Emperor Lambert, who was the opponent of Formosus and the pope ’ s preferred imperial candidate, Arnulf of Carinthia.

At the investiture of Lothair as Emperor he gained the territories belonging to Matilda of Tuscany in return for an annuity to be paid to the pope, in consequence of which the curial party based the contention that the Emperor was a vassal of the Papal see.

John XXII was neutral at first, but in 1323, when Louis IV had won and became Holy Roman Emperor, the Guelph ( papal ) party and the Ghibelline ( imperial ) party began a serious quarrel.

After the death of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII, the Luxemburg party among the prince electors set aside Henry's son, the Bohemian king John of Luxemburg, because of his youth and chose Louis as rival king to Frederick the Fair, the cousin of Louis.

The Battle of Pavia ( 1525 ) marks a watershed in the city's fortunes, since by that time, the former cleavage between the supporters of the Pope and those of the Holy Roman Emperor had shifted to one between a French party ( allied with the Pope ) and a party supporting the Emperor and King of Spain Charles V. Thus during the Valois-Habsburg Italian Wars, Pavia was naturally on the Imperial ( and Spanish ) side.

The Hildebrandine party was aroused to action, however ; a Lateran council of March 1112 declared null and void the concessions extorted by violence ; a council held at Vienne in October 1111 excommunicated the Emperor ; and Paschal II sanctioned the proceeding.

Relying on the support of the Monothelite party, he made some pretensions to the throne on the outbreak of the first great rebellion against Emperor Justinian II ; these led to his relegation to Cephalonia by Tiberius Apsimarus, and subsequently to his banishment, by order of Justinian, to Cherson.

Bokassa's full title was Empereur de Centrafrique par la volonté du peuple Centrafricain, uni au sein du parti politique national, le MESAN (" Emperor of Central Africa by the will of the Central African people, united within the national political party, the MESAN ").

His Imperial Majesty Bokassa I, Emperor of Central Africa by the will of the Central African people, united within the national political party, the MESAN.

Executing the design was slow: Little was actually completed in Michelangelo's lifetime ( the ‘’ Cordonata ’’ was not in place when Emperor Charles arrived, and the imperial party had to scramble up the slope from the Forum to view the works in progress ), but work continued faithfully to his designs and the Campidoglio was completed in the 17th century, except for the paving design, which was to be finished three centuries later.

Bokassa ’ s full title was Empereur de Centrafrique par la volonté du peuple Centrafricain, uni au sein du parti politique national, le MESAN (“ Emperor of Central Africa by the will of the Central African people, united within the national political party, the MESAN ”).

In the late 3rd Century, in the reign of Emperor Gallienus, a large raiding party, composed by Goths, Gepids and Heruli, launched itself in the Black Sea, raiding the coast of Anatolia and Thrace, and crossing into the Aegean Sea, plundering mainland Greece ( including Athens and Sparta ) and going as far as Crete and Rhodes.

The leader of the Guelph party in Italy, Robert opposed the sojourn of Emperor Henry VII in Italy ( 1311 – 13 ) and his occupation of Rome in 1312.

Yuan became increasingly disrespectful of the dynasty and only loyal to the party from which he benefited ; his defection to Cixi against Guangxu Emperor was a major blow to the Hundred Days Reform.

* 1936 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German Nazi party leader ( b. 1895 )

His Critique of the Gotha Programme opposed the tendency of his followers Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel to compromise with the state socialism of Ferdinand Lassalle in the interests of a united socialist party.

He was aided by the German priest Ludwig Kaas, who was known for his expertise in Church-state relations and was a full-time politician, politically active in the Catholic Centre Party, a party he led following Wilhelm Marx's resignation in October 1928.

Wilhelm Gustloff ( January 30, 1895-February 4, 1936 ) was the German leader of the NSDAP ( Nazi ) party in Switzerland ; he founded the Swiss branch of the party at Davos in 1932, which organized German citizens living in Switzerland.

* January 30 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German-born Swiss Nazi party leader ( d. 1936 )

After plans elaborated with Wilhelm Külz to build up an all-German liberal party had failed, Heuss in December 1948 was elected head of West German and Berlin sections of the newly founded Free Democratic Party.

Consequently, together with August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht, Bernstein prepared the Einigungsparteitag (" unification party congress ") with the Lassalleans in Gotha in 1875.

In October, 1948, the SED was instrumental in replacing Janka, Volkmann and Bergmann as corporate directors with official party members Wilhelm Meissner, Alexander Lösche and Grete Keilson.

After World War II he became a leader of the SPD in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany and, fiercely opposed by chairman Kurt Schumacher, led his party into a merger with the Communist Party under Wilhelm Pieck.

Wilhelm Pieck, a leader of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED ) party ( which was created by a forced merger of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) and Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ) in the Soviet sector ), was elected first President of the German Democratic Republic.

But a few days later he joined the Gruppe Internationale ( Group International ) which Rosa Luxemburg had founded on 5 August 1914 with Franz Mehring, Wilhelm Pieck and four others from the left wing of the party, adhering to the pre-war resolutions of the SPD.

As planned, three members of each socialist party were elected into the " Council of People's Representatives ", from the USPD, their chairman Hugo Haase, the deputy Wilhelm Dittmann and Emil Barth for the Revolutionary Stewards ; from the SPD Ebert, Scheidemann and the Magdeburg deputy Otto Landsberg.

The German socialist party ( SPD ) was founded in Gotha in 1875, through the merger of two organizations: the Social Democratic Workers ' Party, led by August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht, and the General German Workers ' Association, founded by Ferdinand Lassalle.

Upon the accession of Emperor Wilhelm II in 1888, the party backed his naval policies and the formation of the German colonial empire, approaching towards the nationalist Pan-German League pressure group, while centrists like Adolf Grabowsky did not prevail.

Influenced by his wife Queen Louise and the war party in Berlin, in August 1806 the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm III made the decision to go to war independently of any other great power, save the distant Russia.

* August 13, 1923 Dr. Wilhelm Cuno ( No party affiliation ) Leaves office

* April 25, 1925 Second round of presidential elections: Paul von Hindenburg, the canditate of the right wing parties, wins over Wilhelm Marx, candidate of the Centre party

* Aug 13, 1923 Dr. Wilhelm Cuno ( No party affiliation ) leaves office

The new Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm V refuses to return the former French territory of Alsace-Lorraine that France's ruling party had demanded.

This party had been founded in 1875 by merging two previous parties: the ADAV formed by Ferdinand Lassalle and the SDAP of August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht.

Zentrum's candidate, Wilhelm Marx, was the chair of the party and a former chancellor.

In Germany, LAF had contact with Wilhelm Franz Canaris and Abwehr, but not the Nazi party.

In late 1938 the chairman of the KPD Wilhelm Pieck concluded during a meeting of party leadership " Hauptgefahr jetzt nicht Trotzkismus, sondern Münzenberg ” ( The present danger is not Trotskyism, but Münzenberg.