The east-central Wisconsin city where abolitionists, land reformers, and utopian socialists founded the Republican Party in ...

3/20/1854: The Republican Party is founded. President Abraham Lincoln would be elected President on the Republican ticket six years later on November 6, 1860.

Happy Thursday! On this date in 1854, the Republican Party was founded as an anti-slavery party by citizens who gathered at a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. Today, what was once the party of ...

and Democratic party met in 1854 to lay the groundwork for the Republican party. Wisconsin is also a pivotal battleground state that will help decide the outcome of the election in November.