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GOP Fast Facts

Republican Presidents:

Number	President	From	To
16	Abraham Lincoln	Mar 4, 1861	Apr 15, 1865
18	Ulysses S. Grant	Mar 4, 1869	Mar 4, 1877
19	Rutherford B. Hayes	Mar 4, 1877	Mar 4, 1881
20	James Garfield	Mar 4, 1881	Sep 19, 1881
21	Chester A. Arthur	Sep 19, 1881	Mar 4, 1885
23	Benjamin Harrison	Mar 4, 1889	Mar 4, 1893
25	William McKinley	Mar 4, 1897	Sep 14, 1901
26	Theodore Roosevelt	Sep 14, 1901	Mar 4, 1909
27	William H. Taft	Mar 4, 1909	Mar 4, 1913
29	Warren G. Harding	Mar 4, 1921	Aug 2, 1923
30	Calvin Coolidge	Aug 2, 1923	Mar 4, 1929
31	Herbert C. Hoover	Mar 4, 1929	Mar 4, 1933
34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Jan 20, 1953	Jan 20, 1961
37	Richard M. Nixon	Jan 20, 1969	Aug 9, 1974
38	Gerald R. Ford	Aug 9, 1974	Jan 20, 1977
40	Ronald W. Reagan	Jan 20, 1981	Jan 20, 1989
41	George H. W. Bush	Jan 20, 1989	Jan 20, 1993
43	George W. Bush	Jan 20, 2001	Jan 20, 2009

***The above listing was borrowed and adapted from http://www.republicanpresidents.net/ on April 19, 2010.***

*The first Republican President was Abraham Lincoln (elected in 1860).

*The first Hispanic Governor, Romualdo Pacheco, was a Republican (elected in 1863).

*Slavery was abolished in 1864 by Republicans.

*The Fourteenth Amendment (gave the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses) was passed in 1866 by Republicans.

*The idea of Memorial Day was initiated by a Republican (in 1868) and was declared a National Holiday by a Republican President (in 1971).

*The Fifteenth Amendment (gave African-Americans the right to vote) was passed in 1865 by Republicans.

*Opposition to Plessy v. Ferguson was made by Justice John Marshall Harlan in 1869, who was appointed by Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes later on.

*The first African-American U. S. Senator, Hiram Revels, was elected in 1870.

*Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872 by Republican President Ulysses Grant.

*The Civil Rights Act of 1865 was passed by Republicans.

*The Nineteenth Amendment (gave women the right to vote) was written by a Republican in 1878.

*Some of the first women mayors were Republicans (1887).

*Republican President Theodore Roosevelt appointed the first Jewish Cabinet Secretary in 1906.

*Republican President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924, which gave all Native Americans citizenship rights.

*The first Hispanic U. S. Senator, Octaviano Larrazolo, was Republican (elected in 1928).

*The first Asian-American U. S. Senator, Hiram Fong, was Republican (elected in 1938).

*The Republican Party was the first to call for dismantling racial segregation in the military (1940).

*A Republican wrote the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954.

*Republicans established our Federal Highway System in 1954.

*Republicans passed the 1957 Civil Rights Act, which was improved upon in 1960 by Republicans.

*Republican President Ronald Reagan called for the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1987.

*In 1994, Republican Newt Gingrich initiated the "Contract with America."

*In 1996, Republicans passed Welfare Reform.

***The above facts were borrowed and adopted from http://www.gop.com/index.php/learn/accomplishment/ on April 19, 2010.***