Republican Party

noun

1. one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
2. U.S. History. Democratic-Republican Party.

Republican Party

noun

1. the more conservative of the two major political parties in the US: established around 1854 Compare Democratic Party
2. any of a number of political parties in other countries, usually so named to indicate their opposition to monarchy
3. history another name for the Democratic-Republican Party

Republican party

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1. One of the two major political parties in the United States. The party began in 1854 ( see under “American History to 1865” ); Abraham Lincoln , elected in 1860, was the first Republican president. During Reconstruction , many Republicans were eager to punish the South for its former slaveholding and for its secession from the United States. The northern Republicans, for example, supported carpetbaggers in southern governments. After Reconstruction, the Republicans favored a high protective tariff and were generally considered the defenders of northeastern and business interests. The party supported the Spanish-American War and the expansion of United States territory overseas. Some Republicans were part of the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century. In the 1920s, the party reestablished its reputation for supporting business and as being wary of any expansion of the place of government in national life. This characterization is still a reasonably accurate, if simplistic, description of basic Republican views. Since Lincoln, the Republican presidents have been Andrew Johnson , Ulysses S. Grant , Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield , Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley , Theodore Roosevelt , William Howard Taft , Warren G. Harding , Calvin Coolidge , Herbert Hoover , Dwight D. Eisenhower , Richard Nixon , Gerald Ford , Ronald Reagan , George H. W. Bush , and George W. Bush .

Republican party

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1. A political party that began in 1854 and is today one of the two major political parties in the United States. Originally, it was composed mainly of northerners from both major parties of the time, the Democrats and the Whigs , with some former Know-Nothings as well. The first Republicans were united by their opposition to the expansion of slavery. Their first winning presidential candidate was Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

Notes

The party's symbol (see also symbol ) is an elephant .

The party is often called the GOP, which stands for “Grand Old Party.”

Example Sentences

And to my mind, the question for the Democrats who voted for it last week is whether they want to be a part of helping turn the power to designate members of civil society as terrorists—without evidence or explanation or really much in the way of recourse—over to Trump and the Republican Party.

From Slate

Trump, whose Republican Party will control both the House and Senate in January, has said that he will seek a national ban on urban camping.

From Los Angeles Times

“A country without secure borders isn’t a country at all,” said Roxanne Hoge, communications director for the Republican Party of Los Angeles County.

From Los Angeles Times

Trump said in a statement that Oz would “cut waste and fraud within our Country's most expensive Government Agency”, and the Republican Party platform pledged to increase transparency, choice and competition and expand access to healthcare and prescription drugs.

From BBC

Beam also touted her endorsement from the Mississippi Republican Party, a breach of protocol in a formally nonpartisan race.

From Slate