The Republican Party, forged from a coalition of political forces to oppose the advance of slavery in the American west, was created in Ripon, Wisconsin, on this day in history, March 20, 1854 ...

Local legend says that the "Horace Greeley, Vivus W. Smith and Thurlow Weed made the plans for the Republican Party under" a Syracuse elm tree in 1854.

The Republican Party was launched in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. Here's a look at how it happened and why.

Since a famous meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin, produced the Republican Party, all attempts at a major alternative political part have flopped miserably.

The delegates gathering in Milwaukee this week are awfully different than the band of abolitionists who founded the Republican Party in this Wisconsin town 170 years ago.

Object Details Author Mayer, George H 1920-1999 Subject Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) History Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) History Contents The golden age of politics -- A new party arises -- ...

Jackson, Michigan, has also claimed status as the birthplace of the Republican Party. On July 6, 1854, a convention was held to nominate a statewide anti-slavery ticket.

When the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise allowing residents to vote on slavery in the northern ... created the new Republican Party. The Whigs vanished and the Civil War ...

Interestingly though, the Republican Party was certainly not "old" when the GOP acronym came into use. The party was only founded two decades prior in 1854.. According to History Channel writer ...