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Candidate Abraham Lincoln was beardless in 1860 when he posed for this
picture. According to a popular tale, he grew the beard after a little girl
wrote him a letter, saying that whiskers would make him more dignified.
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This historic schoolhouse in Ripon, Wis., is said to be the starting point of the Repub
lican Party. In the words of Alvan Bovay, a prime mover of the meeting, "We went
into the little meeting held in the schoolhouse Whigs, Free Soilers and Democrats.
We come out of it Republicans, and we were the first Republicans in the country."
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THE SUNDAY STAR MAGAZINE. WASHINGTON. 0 C. APRIL I, 1956
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ANDREW JOHNSON —Saved
from impeachment by one vote,
he did not try for re-election.
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WILLIAM McKINLEY —Third
President assassinated, and the
last Civil War veteran in office.
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soon after, and Andrew Johnson assumed the office Johnson,
unfortunately, had none of Lincoln’s ability to conciliate political
opponents, and he barely escaped impeachment.
By 1868, the Democrats were reorganizing their war torn party,
and Republicans, turning to a popular hero, nominated Gen U. S.
Grant, who had led the North to victory in the Civil War. Despite
a few inept and dishonest appointees. Grant himself remained
popular and above reproach and easily won re-election in 1872.
Refusing a third term, Grant left the White House to Rutherford
B. Hayes, who won fewer popular votes than his Democratic
opponent, Samuel J. Tllden, but nevertheless won the presidency
in the Electoral College by one vote.
Scholarly, popular James A. Garfield followed Hayes in 1880,
but his assassination shortly afterward gave the office to Chester
A. Arthur. Arthur’s surprising insistence on a reform administra
tion, especially a civil service law, cost him his party’s nomination,
and in the election of 1884 Democrat Grover Cleveland outdistanced
Republican stalwart James G. Blaine. Benjamin Harrison defeated
Cleveland in 1888, but four years later Cleveland was returned
to office.
William McKinley carried the Republican banner to victory in
1886, but after winning a second term, in 1900 he was assassinated,
the third such tragedy to afflict Republican Presidents in less than
50 years. His popular Vice President, Teddy Roosevelt, succeeded
to the office and won another term on his own In 1904. Teddy
soon became known as a Trust Buster in his effort to regulate
industrial monopolies, and in world affairs he established the
United States among the forefront of nations by his forceful
handling of international problems.
T. R.’s dissatisfaction with his self-appointed successor, William
Howard Taft, split the Republican Party in 1912, permitting the
election of Woodrow Wilson, the first Democrat since Cleveland,
20 years earlier. Eight years later, the United States elected a
Republican again, Warren G. Harding, who promised a post-World
War I "return to normalcy.”
ULYSSES S. GRANT —An ar
dent horseman, once arrested
for speeding in Washington.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT —A
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thor, hunter and .Rough Rider.