Coalescing around an ideology of free labor, Lincoln and like-minded men founded the Republican Party to fill the vacuum left with the collapse of the national Whig and Democratic parties over the ...

The party traces its origins back to the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the ...

the campaign slogan of party leader Donald Trump. The Republican Party said that its legacy, being founded "for the purpose of ending slavery," compels it "to patriotically defend America's values ...

Representing big business and the status quo was the conservative Republican incumbent ... nominated by the newly founded Progressive Party, also known as the Bull Moose Party.