GrandOldPartisan

GrandOldPartisan

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    Redfield Proctor, splendid Colonel and Businessman and Governor and Senator
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    George Sheldon, first Republican in the Mississippi Legislature since Reconstruction
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    George Sheldon – Republican Statesman of Nebraska and Mississippi
    1:41
    John Lacey took the lead on protecting the environment
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    Democrats' pro-slavery policies condemned in the ILGOP's first platform
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    Osro Cobb, twenty-three years Chairman of the Arkansas GOP
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    Edgar Crumpacker defended Blacks from their Democrat oppressors
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    President George W. Bush understood the meaning of Memorial Day
    1:23
    William Barnes joined the Liberty Party, then the Free Soil Party, then co-founded the New York GOP
    1:20
    origin of the U.S. Foreign Service
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    Henry Deming – Mayor of Hartford then Mayor of New Orleans
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    George Washington Anderson – "quite prominent as a Republican politician"
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    the GOP established Theodore Roosevelt Island and Memorial
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    Governor Head – Nathaniel and Natt
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    Harry Cummings, laudable Black man who seconded Theodore Roosevelt’s presidential nomination
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    Senator Jacob Javits – "affable and ebullient, abrasive and brusque"
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    spotlighting a classic denunciation of the Democratic Party
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    Richard Wright – "Tell them we are rising."
    1:41
    Republicans rewrote the Mississippi Constitution to eliminate the Democrats' Slave System
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    William Tyler Page – author of The American’s Creed
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    Oliver Perry Mason – first Chief Justice of Nebraska
    1:20
    Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan – "a man dedicated to his country"
    1:15
    Samuel Van Sant – Illinois Boy Soldier and Minnesota Republican Governor
    1:20
    Democrats tried to shut down the first Republican speech in California
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    Charles Prince – Maine Soldier and Georgia Congressman
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