Republican Leaders Throughout United States History

1877: Romualdo Pacheco - 1st Hispanic US Congressman & 1st Hispanic Governor (CA)

1916: Jeannette Rankin - 1st woman elected into the US Congress; re-elected in 1940

1861: Abraham Lincoln - 1st Republican US President & Civil War Leader

1872: Frederick Douglass - 1st African-American nominated for US Vice President; Author; Abolitionist.

The Little White Schoolhouse, Ripon, Wisconsin. On March 20, 1854, the Republican Party of the United States of America was founded at this little schoolhouse.

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