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The Republican Party was born in Southwest Michigan? Jackson wants to see the receipts.

JACKSON, MI – The label has long been Jackson’s. It’s declared on signs at the city limits and inscribed on a plaque fastened ...
Korea Joongang Daily on MSNOpinion

The founding of the US Republican Party

Born in 1854 out of opposition to slavery, the Republican Party rose quickly under Abraham Lincoln before evolving into the ...
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This day in history - March 20: Republican Party founded following Kansas-Nebraska Act

March 20, 1854 - The founding meeting of the Republican Party took place in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854. Former Whig Party members gathered to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery ...
AOL

Republican Party was founded for 'one reason only' - to eliminate slavery: Mark Levin

Fox News host Mark Levin details the history of the Republican Party and calls out the Democratic Party for returning to its 'old ways' on 'Life, Liberty & Levin.' ...
KCTV News

This Day in History: GOP organizes as party in opposition to slavery expansion

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - On this day in history, March 20, 1854, the Republican Party was founded to oppose the expansion of slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The new party drew from ex-Whigs, ...
The Hill

Race and the GOP: The Road to Perdition

The Republican Party was born in 1854, largely to oppose expanding slavery and, for many of its founders, to abolish it. By 1860, the party’s platform declared the African slave trade a “crime against ...