Fremont as the first Republican to run for president. He lost to Pennsylvania Democrat James Buchanan, but made an impressive showing for the upstart party founded only two years earlier.

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 ...

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