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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.***
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