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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...