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The 1856 Republican National Convention was a presidential nominating convention that met from June 17 to June 19, 1856, at Musical Fund Hall at 808 Locust Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] It was the first national nominating convention of the Republican Party, founded two years earlier in 1854.
2 This convention was known as the National Union Republican Convention. 3 Sherman, who had been elected vice president in 1908, died six days before the 1912 election; he was subsequently replaced as Republican vice-presidential nominee by Nicholas M. Butler of New York.
The first anti-Nebraska local meeting where "Republican" was suggested as a name for a new anti-slavery party was held in a Ripon, Wisconsin schoolhouse on March 20, 1854. [14] The first statewide convention that formed a platform and nominated candidates under the Republican name was held near Jackson, Michigan , on July 6, 1854.
At the first public meeting of the anti-Nebraska movement on March 20, 1854, at the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, the name "Republican" was proposed as the name of the party. [43] The name was partly chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jefferson 's Democratic-Republican Party . [ 44 ]
The growing importance of primaries became evident at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, where U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater from Arizona won the nomination, easily turning away Pennsylvania governor William Scranton and others more favorable to the party establishment. At the 1972 Republican National Convention, Pat Nixon ...
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Bovay told his future friend of his idea of a new party named the Republican Party, and Greeley, who had himself already proposed the name "Republican," was enthusiastic. In 1854, because of the issue of the Kansas–Nebraska Act being considered by the United States Congress , Bovay, a member of the 36-year-old Whig Party, called a meeting to ...