Two years later, the Republican Party held its first national convention ... By 2011, both events had been wiped from the RNC ...

The United States has been a two-party democracy for most of its existence, much to the chagrin of some of its anti-partisan founders. Since 1860, those two parties have been the Democratic Party ...

1856: Republicans: John C. Fremont The Republican Party grew out of resistance to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which overrode the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery to spread into ...

with the Republican Party in 1856. The only thing which gives this pronunciamiento any importance, is the fact that the Courier and Enquirer is the special organ of the State Administration ...

that the nomination by the Chicago Convention of any man for the Presidency who acted against us in 1856, would inevitably insure the defeat of the Republican Party; and we believe, too ...

The Whig Party died in 1856 because the new Republican Party was able to draw off so many Whigs that the Republican Party effectively killed the Whig Party. There seems to be a parallel here ...