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  1. May 20, 2024 · Democratic-Republican Party, first opposition political party in the United States. Organized in 1792 as the Republican Party, its members held power nationally between 1801 and 1825. It was the direct antecedent of the present Democratic Party.

  2. May 8, 2024 · The donkey goes back to the first Democratic president, Andrew Jackson, in 1828, but it was cartoonist Thomas Nast who helped popularize both the donkey and Republican elephant as party...

  3. 3 days ago · The modern Democratic Party emerged in the late 1820s from former factions of the Democratic-Republican Party, which had largely collapsed by 1824. It was built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled a cadre of politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson of Tennessee.

  4. May 24, 2024 · Florida politicians, including Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump, have remade the Republican Party nationally in the state's image. | Patrick Semansky/AP. By Kimberly...

  5. 5 days ago · According to historian Herbert J. Doherty, Republican victory in that election was mainly due to the fact that its Democratic opponent Al Smith was a Catholic and opposed to Prohibition, which caused many members of the Southern Baptist Convention to switch to the Republican Party. [12]

  6. 1 day ago · The Republican Party originated in Congress to oppose the nationalist and economically interventionist policies of Alexander Hamilton, who served as Secretary of the Treasury under President George Washington.

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