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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.12.23

To win the presidential election of eighteen sixty, the Republican Party had decided it needed a man of the people.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Stephen Douglas united other Democrats and members of the anti-slavery Republican Party to fight against the bill in the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

This use of government troops to end strikes caused many citizens to vote against the ruling Republican Party.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Mrs.Luce agreed to be the Republican Party candidate for his seat in the House of Representatives from Connecticut.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

He served five terms. In nineteen fifty-eight, McCarthy defeated a Republican Party senator and won a seat in the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

He tried to show that his Democratic Party was a national party, while the Republican Party was a party only of the North.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

When the Republican Party convention opened in Cincinnati,Ohio, Blaine was the leading candidate for the presidential nomination.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

They also wanted to be sure new governments in the southern states would support the Republican Party.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Almost everyone feared Arthur would be a tool of a Republican Party leader in New York,Roscoe Conkling.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

"Such movements as this for protection,"said Blaine, "will move the Republican Party only into speedy defeat."

VOA: special.2010.06.03

After the Civil War, most southern states were governed by radical members of the Republican Party.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

As expected, the radicals who controlled the main Republican Party nominated Grant for a second term.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Lincoln was not well-known. So the Republican Party published many books and pamphlets about him.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

In nineteen fifty-two, she supported the Republican Party's candidate for president, former General Dwight Eisenhower.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

Blaine also opposed the bill because he felt it would hurt the Republican Party politically.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

In nineteen sixty-four, she supported Senator Barry Goldwater as the Republican Party's candidate for president.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

This week in our series, Jack Weitzel and Tony Riggs tell how Grant's problems affected the Republican Party in the presidential election of eighteen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

In eighteen sixty-eight, radical members of the Republican Party held a trial in the Senate.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

He was seeking re-election. His opponent was a lawyer from the newly established Republican Party.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Republican Party leaders in New York thought he would be the perfect candidate for governor.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

He received criticism from the Republican Party for offering talks with Iran and Cuba.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

Instead,they said, vote for the Republican Party, the party that had saved the Union.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Northern Democrats refused. The opposition Republican Party expected to gain votes from dissatisfied Democrats.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

He defeated John Fremont,the candidate of the newly created Republican Party, which opposed slavery.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Members of the Democratic Party called the raid a plot by the Republican Party.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

The Republican Party also was divided over the issue of gold and silver.

VOA: special.2010.07.01