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Encyclopedia: Republican Party (United States) (9172 words) |
 | The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party [1]), is one of the two major political parties in the United States (the other being the Democratic Party). |
| Organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery into new territories, the Party is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson or the National Republican Party of Henry Clay. |
| Thomas Dewey represented the Northeastern wing of the party that was closer to Democratic liberalism and internationalism. |
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