Still, it was a great victory for the Whig Party and a sharply felt loss for the opposing party, the Democrats.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

It could help him build a new political party, a party that might elect him president for another four years.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

In the presidential election of eighteen-sixty, he supported his party's candidate, not the candidate of the Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Many Republicans supported the proposal, even though the Republican Party opposed the spread of slavery into the western territories.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Bryan explained that he had to travel, because the Democratic Party did not have enough money to campaign in other ways.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Smaller Democratic majorities could force the president to reach out to the opposition and to conservatives in his own party.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

He also feared that Harrison was not strong enough to oppose the demands of special interest groups in the Republican Party.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Hayes was a Republican. His party had great hopes of electing another Republican in the election of eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

He was young and exciting. Republicans thought he was the right man to lead their young and exciting party.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

It was a party of protest, formed by men who refused to support either of the two old parties.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Some Whig leaders remembered how William Henry Harrison had won the presidency for the party by campaigning as a military hero.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Dylan is wearing false long hair and dancing around with a crowd of mostly younger people at a wild house party.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

He became a lawyer. He moved to another northeastern state -- Massachusetts -- where he became active in Republican Party politics.

VOA: special.2010.12.23

President Pierce had tried to unite the different groups in the party by giving each a representative in his cabinet.

VOA: special.2009.05.14