Here's what to know about the official birthplace of the Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party, or GOP. Get ...
The republican party or the Grand Old Party â the GOP â as it is popularly called, was founded in March 1854, in Ripon, Wisconsin. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the first republican ...
Professors tell us that we have been here before. In 1854, the Republican Party started because southern slaveholders controlled Congress and wanted slavery in the new territories via the ...