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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 • capitalism • Southern strategy • laissez-faire • right
Related People Anna Elizabeth Dickinson • Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms • Joseph Medill • Kate Chase Sprague • Donald Trump • Abraham Lincoln • George W. Bush • Ronald Reagan • Richard Nixon • James R. Thompson • George Bruce Cortelyou • Harold Edward Stassen • Phil Gramm • Warren Rudman • William S. Cohen

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