Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1854 - Events. January 4 - The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang. January 13 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas. January 21 - Loss of the Tayleur - 380 drowned, later dubbed "the first Titanic" February 11 - Major stree ...

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1854 in rail transport - February events. February 15 - Pennsylvania Railroad's Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania, opens for railroad traffic. 1854 in rail transport - June events. June - The Grand Excursion takes prominent Eastern United States inhabitants from Chicago, Illinois to Rock Island, Illinois by railroad, then up the Mississippi River to St. Paul, Minnesota by steamboat. 1854 in rail transport - July events. July 3 - The Brooklyn City Railroad, the oldest streetcar line in Brookl ...

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The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for "Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Democratic Party. The party was first established in 1854 by Northerners who were opposed to the spread of slavery, and held a Hamiltonian vision for modernizing the nation. In the modern political era, the GOP is usually considered the more socially conservative and economically neoliberal of the two major parties. The current President, George W. Bush, is the party lead ...

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Republican Party United States - Birth: 1854-1860. The new party was created in 1854 as an act of defiance against what activists denounced as the Slave Power--the powerful class of Southern slaveholders who were conspiring to control the federal government and to spread slavery nationwide. Gould asks: "Why did the name "Republican" gain such favor [in 1854]?" He explains: "Simply as a title it connected voters with the original political organization of Thomas Jefferson in the 1790s." Thus the leaders drew upon ...

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Republican Party United States - Birth: 1854-1860. The new party was created in 1854 as an act of defiance against what activists said was the Slave Power--the powerful class of Southern slaveholders who were conspiring to control the federal government and to spread slavery nationwide. They adopted the name "Republican" to indicate it was the carrier of "republican" beliefs about civic virtue, and opposition to aristocracy and corruption. The leaders sought to draw on the tradition of the National Republican Par ...

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) is responsible for promoting presidential goals (when the party controls the White House) or articulating Republican policies (when the Democrats have the White House). In presidential elections it supervises the national convention and, under the direction of the presidential candidate, it raises funds and coordinates campaign strategy. There are similar state committees in every state and most large cities, counties, and legislative districts, but they have far less money and influence than the natio ...

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April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). There are 246 days remaining. April 29 - Events. 1429 - Battle of Orléans: French troops led by Joan of Arc lifted the English siege of Orléans, a turning point in the Hundred Years' War. 1672 - Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands. 1770 - James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia. 1854 - The Ashmun Institute is official ...

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Republican Party United States - Present-day: active. George Allen, Senator from Virginia, possible presidential candidate in 2008 Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi and former chair of the Republican National Committee. Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), House Majority Whip, acting Majority Leader and candidate for Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman and candidate for Majority leader< ...

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) is responsible for promoting presidential goals (when the party controls the White House) or articulating Republican policies (when the Democrats have the White House). In presidential elections it supervises the national convention and, under the direction of the presidential candidate, it raises funds and coordinates campaign strategy. There are similar state committees in every state and most large cities, counties, and legislative districts, but they have far less money and influence than the natio ...

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Republicans have controlled the White House for 26 of the previous 38 years, and both houses of Congress since 1994 (except for over a year in the Senate). Karl Rove and other commentators have speculated about a permanent political realignment along the lines of the presidential election of 1896, in which Mark Hanna helped William McKinley construct a Republican majority that lasted for the next 36 years. Two approaches to projecting future trends give opposite results. Republicans say their geographical red map is growing faster tha ...

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Republican Party United States - Present-day: active. George Allen, Senator from Virginia. Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi and former chair of the Republican National Committee. Michael Bloomberg, media entrepreneur and Mayor of New York City/ RINO. Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida. Saxby Chambliss, Senator from Georgia. Norm Coleman, Senator from Minnesota. Tom DeLay, former House Majority Leader, from Texas; suspended as Leader while his criminal t ...

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The trends Phillips described, however, could be seen in the 1980 and 1984 elections of Ronald Reagan - the latter being a landslide in which Reagan won nearly 59% of the popular vote and carried 49 of the 50 states (a statistic that illustrates the even distribution of Democrat and Republican voters during that era). The Reagan Democrats were Democrats before the Reagan years, and afterwards, but who voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (and for George H. W. Bush in 1988), producing their landslide victories. They were mos ...

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House Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingrich-led "Republican Revolution" of 1994 and its Contract With America. It was the first time since 1952 that the Republicans secured control of both houses of U.S. Congress, which, with the exception of the Senate during 2001-2002, has been retained through the present time. This capture and subsequent holding of congress represented a major legislative turnaround, as Democrats controlled both houses of congress for the forty years preceeding 1994, with the exception ...

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With the controversial victory of George W. Bush in the closely contested 2000 election, the Republican party gained control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1952, only to lose control of the Senate by one vote when Vermont Senator James Jeffords left the Republican party to become an independent in 2001 and chose to vote with the Democratic caucus. In the wake of the 2001 September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, however, Bush's popularity rose as he pursued a "War on Terrorism" ...

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The trends Phillips described, however, could be seen in the 1980 and 1984 elections of Ronald Reagan - the latter being a landslide in which Reagan won nearly 59% of the popular vote and carried 49 of the 50 states (a statistic that illustrates the even distribution of Democrat and Republican voters during that era). The Reagan Democrats were Democrats before the Reagan years, and afterwards, but who voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (and for George H. W. Bush in 1988), producing their landslide victories. They were mos ...

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House Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingrich-led "Republican Revolution" of 1994 and its Contract With America. It was the first time since 1952 that the Republicans secured control of both houses of U.S. Congress, which, with the exception of the Senate during 2001-2002, has been retained through the present time. This capture and subsequent holding of congress represented a major legislative turnaround, as Democrats controlled both houses of congress for the forty years preceeding 1994, with the exception ...

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With the victory of George W. Bush in the closely contested 2000 election, the Republican party gained control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1952, only to lose control of the Senate by one vote when Vermont Senator James Jeffords left the Republican party to become an independent in 2001 and chose to vote with the Democratic caucus. In the wake of the 2001 September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, however, Bush's popularity rose as he pursued a "War on Terrorism" ...

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Further information: Politics of the United States#Organization of American Political Parties The Republican National Committee (RNC) is responsible for promoting presidential goals (when the party controls the White House) or articulating Republican policies (when the Democrats have the White House). In presidential elections it supervises the national convention and, under the direction of the presidential candidate, it raises funds and coordinates campaign strategy. There are simil ...

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Republicans have controlled the White House for 26 of the previous 38 years, and both houses of Congress since 1994 (except for over a year in the Senate). Karl Rove and other commentators have speculated about a permanent political realignment along the lines of the presidential election of 1896, in which Mark Hanna helped William McKinley construct a Republican majority that lasted for the next 36 years. Two approaches to projecting future trends give opposite results. Republicans say their geographical red map is growing faster tha ...

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