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2007 – Lincoln Chafee, former Independent and Democratic governor of Rhode Island (2011–2015), former Republican U.S. senator for Rhode Island (1999–2007), switched from Republican to Independent in 2007, switched from Independent to Democrat in 2013 while serving as governor of Rhode Island, ran for President in the 2016 Democratic Party ...
Democratic: Republican: He switched parties in the wake of President Pierce's signing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. John J. O'Connor: New York: 16th: October 24, 1938
Republican: Democratic [97] Dean Johnson: Minnesota State Senator: 2000: Republican: DFL [98] Jim Justice: Governor of West Virginia: 2017: Democratic: Republican: Justice had previously been a Republican until switching to the Democratic Party in 2015 to run for Governor of West Virginia. [99] [100] John Kennedy: Treasurer of Louisiana: August ...
Senator State Date Congress Old party New party Notes Jim Jeffords: Vermont: June 6, 2001 107th: Republican: Independent Caucused with the Democrats. Gave Democrats temporary control of the senate.
Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton last November in the most divisive presidential election in modern U.S. politics, in which a gulf between Republicans and Democrats has widened and hardened ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dozens of former Republican and Democratic officials announced on Wednesday a new national political third party to appeal to millions of voters they say are dismayed with ...
A former Democrat turned Republican, Braun has represented The Hoosier State in the Senate since 2019. Before serving in the U.S. Congress, Braun was in the Indiana House of Representatives.
The Republican Party and the American Party both sought to succeed the Whigs as the main opposition to the Democratic Party, and the Republicans eventually became the most popular party in the Northern United States. The Republicans absorbed many Northern Whigs, as well as some anti-slavery Democrats and much of the Free Soil Party.