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Also Known As GOP • Grand Old Party • Anti-Nebraska Democratic Party • People’s Party
Date 1854 - present
Areas Of Involvement conservatism • Southern strategy • capitalism • laissez-faire • right
Related People Anna Elizabeth Dickinson • Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms • Joseph Medill • Kate Chase Sprague • Abraham Lincoln • George W. Bush • Ronald Reagan • Donald Trump • Richard Nixon • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Theodore Roosevelt • Ulysses S. Grant • Tommy Tuberville • Steve Scalise • Liz Cheney

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