Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that ...

Before Salmon P. Chase was Secretary of the Treasury and Supreme Court chief justice, he was a Cincinnati attorney defending fugitive slave cases.

Republicans also got key reinforcements for their slim House majority at an important moment. And Democrats made gains ...

By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune Two hundred years ago this month, President John Quincy Adams took the oath of ...

However, too many politicians, who claim the mantle of the party of Reagan and Trump, fail to understand our pro-union roots. Founded by Abraham Lincoln in 1854 to oppose slavery, the Republican Party ...

However, too many politicians, who claim the mantle of the party of Reagan and Trump, fail to understand our pro-union roots. Founded by Abraham Lincoln in 1854 to oppose slavery, the Republican ...

Advertisement In 1854, in what is considered the founding meeting of the Republican Party, former members of the Whig Party met in Ripon, Wis., to establish a new party to oppose the spread of ...

Advertisement In 1854, the Republican Party of the United States was founded by opponents of slavery at a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. In 1976, kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was ...