Republican Party
The Republican Party was an American political party.
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Republican Party was founded in the 1850s, and was preceded by the Whig Party. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln won that year's presidential election, becoming a Republican President of the United States. (PROSE: Blood and Hope [+]Loading...["Blood and Hope (novel)"])
From 1929 to 1933, the United States had a Republican president, Herbert Hoover. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"], A History of Humankind [+]Loading...["A History of Humankind (novel)"])
In 1940, Cody McBride, an American expatriate living in the United Kingdom, said he was a Democrat as opposed to a Republican but felt he was too busy to get involved in politics. (PROSE: Illegal Alien [+]Loading...["Illegal Alien (novel)"])
In 1968, (PROSE: Tricky Dicky [+]Loading...["Tricky Dicky (short story)"]) Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Rockefeller were candidates in the Republican Party presidential primaries. Bob Decker believed none of them would be able to beat Kennedy in the general election. (PROSE: The Devil Goblins from Neptune [+]Loading...["The Devil Goblins from Neptune (novel)"]) The election would be won by Nixon, who served as President until his resignation in 1974. (PROSE: Tricky Dicky [+]Loading...["Tricky Dicky (short story)"])
Following Nixon's resignation, (PROSE: Tricky Dicky [+]Loading...["Tricky Dicky (short story)"]) Gerald Ford was President. When he was up for re-election, he was challenged for the Republican Party's presidential nomination by the Governor of California, Ronald Reagan. (PROSE: The Assassin's Story [+]Loading...["The Assassin's Story (short story)"])
Lola Denison was elected as Arizona's representative in the United States Congress as a Republican, though she was later labelled by the press as a Republican-in-name-only or "RINO", and she was reelected as an Independent. (PROSE: Head of State [+]Loading...["Head of State (novel)"])
Helen Larsen and John McCain were both liberal Republicans. (PROSE: Head of State [+]Loading...["Head of State (novel)"])
By the 2000s, President Norris, a Republican, was in office. (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Loading...["Interference - Book One (novel)"], Cat's Cradle: Warhead [+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)"])
In 2012, Diana Goddard predicted that the next President of the United States would be a Democrat rather than a Republican. Henry van Statten implied that he would be the one to decide whether that would happen. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"])
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Several US Presidents who have been mentioned to exist in the DWU, but whose party has not been stated, were Republicans in the real world. These include: Chester A. Arthur, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Ulysses S. Grant was another real world Republican US President who exists in the DWU, however, no DWU source mentions him having been president.
John McCain was the Republican Party nominee for the 2008 presidential election.
