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Political Party Timeline

#NewDemocraticParty

Bill Clinton’s victory in 1992 solidified the Democratic Party’s popularity with labor unions, women, minorities, and Reagan Democrats

1992

1972

Republican President Nixon was involved in the Watergate Scandal, which negatively impacted the Republican party in years to come

#Yikes

#NixonvKennedy

The Democrats returned to the White House with the election of Kennedy

1960

#DepressedStressedReadyForHisAddress

The economic depression and Democrats growing support in urban voting blocks helped elect F.D.R.

1932

#RepublicansControlCongress

Democrat John Kerry lost to George W. Bush

2004

1860

The party split into Northern and Southern Democrats over the controversy of slavery

#Northerners4Abolishment

#Southerners4Slavery

1860

Elected Abraham Lincoln as president

#HonestAbe

#SquadGoals

The Democratic Party became a national party lead by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Aaron Burr, George Clinton, Benjamin Rush, and Albert Gallatin

1800

1928

Herbert Hoover was elected president in the first election since the Civil War in which the Republican Party carried the states of the old Confederacy

#ThanksHerb

#DwightForTheWin

Eisenhower won the presidency by a landslide, ending ~20 years of Republican defeat

1952

#MakingHistory

Republican Party founded in Jackson, Michigan

1854

1932-1944

Roosevelt was elected for four consecutive terms as President

#WinningStreak

1912

Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third party candidate. Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the presidency

#VotingForAThirdPartyCandidateIsAWastedVote

2000

George W. Bush was elected in one of the most controversial elections after being awarded Florida’s disputed electoral votes

#FloridaRecount

#DramaQueen

Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

1865

#Comeback

Republican resurgence

in the congressional elections

1918

#DemocratsGoDownhill

William Jennings Bryan, a radical, secured the Democratic presidential nominee, forcing the party to support Populist demands

1896

1855

Republican Party had spread throughout the northern states

#StartedFromTheBottom

1948

The party split again into the Northern and Southern Democrats

#DejaVu

#ThurmondvTruman

#LetsGetItStarted

Delegates met in Pitt., PA to write the party’s first platform

1856

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