abraham lincoln what party did he belong to
Lincoln was the first Republican president, elected in 1860. He was a member of the Whig Party from 1832 to 1854 before there was a Republican Party . He was nominated by the National Union Party in 1864. This party was really just a name-change for the Republican party which was trying to attract anyone who did not want to end the war with a truce. That's right. Barack Obama's hero, Abraham Lincoln, was a Republican. Lincoln wasn't just any ole Republican either. He was among the founders of the Republican Party and was the first Republican to be elected President. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin. When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law on July 2, 1964, he is said to have told an aide, “We [Democrats] have lost the South for a generation.”. But that statement did not just apply to the Democrats. Republicans were, necessarily, part of the change equation. At the same time, civil rights advocates within the Republican Party either left or were defeated. House minority leader Charles Halleck, the Indiana Republican who worked closely with the Johnson administration to pass muscular civil rights protections was deposed the following January by his own caucus. That’s right. Barack Obama’s hero, Abraham Lincoln, was a Republican. Lincoln wasn’t just any ole Republican either. He was among the founders of the Republican Party and was the first Republican to be elected President. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin. But in stubborn historical reality, Lincoln was a Whig for more years than he was a Republican, and a loyal Whig too. He joined the party as a young man, as soon as it was formed, and became one of a faithful band of Whig members in the Illinois state legislature from 1834 to 1841. For a time in the 1950s and 1960s, enlightened Democrats and Republicans competed to be the party of civil rights. Republicans were not the party of Thurmond, they were explicitly and proudly the party of Lincoln. By Lincoln's words of support for his political party, he showed himself to be a master of the political arts. The supreme political art is the capacity to articulate thoughts in such terms that the public can recognize them as its own. Such master politicians truly belong to the ages. The role of the Republican Party in the 1800s was to oppose the issue of slavery and stop its spread. The Republicans, led by Lincoln, voted down all efforts at formal compromises on slavery. The party was opposed to making slavery legal in all places of the United States. Lincoln sometimes went into a crisscross of roll calls, quotations, documents in established history, to prove 'the fathers' held the Republican political party's view of restricting slavery, Carl Sandburg claimed. Abraham Lincoln's Whig party loyalty is not part of the popular legend of this great president. That legend took shape in the years after the Civil War and was fostered by the Republican party, whose interest it served.
National Union Party