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Wood-frame "Wigwam" building specially designed for the 1860 Republican Convention in Chicago. By 1860 the dissolution of the Whig Party in America had become an accomplished fact, with establishment Whig politicians, former Free Soilers, and a certain number of anti-Catholic populists from the Know Nothing movement flocking to the banner of the fledgling anti-slavery Republican Party.
The Cooper Union speech or address, known at the time as the Cooper Institute speech, [1] was delivered by Abraham Lincoln on February 27, 1860, at Cooper Union, in New York City. Lincoln was not yet the Republican nominee for the presidency, as the convention was scheduled for May. It is considered one of his most important speeches.
The Republican Party supports strong law and order policies to control crime. The vast majority of Republicans support capital punishment. [84] Official party platforms have consistently argued that the death penalty is an effective deterrent to crime and ensures safer neighborhoods, citing the rising crime rates in recent decades.
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Pennington appointed a pro-tariff Republican majority to the Ways and Means Committee, with John Sherman of Ohio its chairman. The Morrill bill was passed out of the Ways and Means Committee. Near the end of first session of the Congress (December 1859–June 1860), on May 10, 1860, the bill was brought up for a floor vote and passed 105–64. [4]
The Republican Party Platform of 1964 also moved remarkably to the right in of the 1960 platform by being more expressedly anti-government as opposed to simply fiscally responsible, opposing provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that dealt with public accommodations and employment discrimination, [103] and by supporting decisive action to ...
The Republican National Convention was full of fanfare this year, as Donald Trump secured the nomination to officially run as the Republican candidate for president of the United States, along with...
At the Republican Party's first National Convention in 1856, the party adopted a national platform emphasizing opposition to the expansion of slavery into the free territories. [49] Although Republican nominee John C. Frémont lost that year's presidential election to Democrat James Buchanan , Buchanan managed to win only four of the fourteen ...