United States Republican Party
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The U.S. Republican party is one of the two big political parties in the United States of America (U.S.A.). The other large party is the Democratic party. The U.S. also has many tiny minor parties known as "third parties."
The Republican National Committee (see http://www.rnc.org) coordinates in all 50 United States most of the activities of the Republican party.
The Republicans are often called "the right" or "conservatives." The Republican Party itself is sometimes called the G.O.P., meaning "Grand Old Party."
Traditionally, the Republican party has supported conservative causes, and has wanted to lower taxes and to limit the role of government.
[edit] U.S. Presidents who were Republicans
The current United States president is a Republican; his name is George W. Bush.
The most-recent Republicans who were U.S. presidents during the 1900's were:
- George H. W. Bush (father to George W. Bush)
- Ronald Reagan (whose vice president was George H. W. Bush)
- Gerald R. Ford (who was vice president under Nixon)
- Richard Nixon (who had been Eisenhower's vice president years earlier)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (who had been general of all U.S. forces during World War II)
- Herbert Hoover
- Calvin Coolidge (who was vice president under Harding)
- Warren G. Harding (who died of an illness in office)
- William Howard Taft
- Theodore Roosevelt (who was vice president under McKinley)
The Republicans who were presidents during the 1800's were:
- William McKinley (who was killed in office)
- Benjamin Harrison
- Chester A. Arthur (who was vice president under Garfield)
- James A. Garfield (who was killed in office)
- Rutherford B. Hayes (who had been a U.S. general during the Civil War)
- Ulysses S. Grant (who had been general of all U.S. forces during the Civil War)
- Abraham Lincoln (who was the first Republican elected president; killed in office)
[edit] Famous Republicans other than U.S. Presidents
- Spiro T. Agnew (vice president under President Nixon)
- William F. Buckley (conservative intellectual)
- Jebb Bush (governor of Florida; son/brother to presidents)
- Dick Cheney (vice president under President George H.W. Bush)
- John Dewey (presidential candidate in 1944 and 1948)
- Bob Dole (presidential candidate in 1996)
- Newt Gingrich (speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives during the 1990's)
- Barry Goldwater (presidential candidate in 1964)
- Chuck Hegel (currently, a senator from Nebraska)
- Dennis Hassert (speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives until 2007)
- Jack Kemp (vice-presidential candidate in 1996)
- John McCaine (currently, a senator from Arizona)
- Ross Perot (independent presidential candidate in 1992 & 1996)
- Colin Powell (general during Persian Gulf War)
- Condoleeza Rice (cabinet member of George H.W. Bush)
- Karl Rove (strategist to George H.W. Bush)
- Donald Rumsfeld (Pentagon secretary during Iraq War)
- Kenneth Starr (U.S. prosecutor of Democrat Bill Clinton)