Republican Party (United States), history/Catalogs

Famous Republican Politicians

• Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868), Pennsylvania Senator; leader of Radicals in Civil War and Reconstruction
• William H. Seward (1801-1872), U.S. Secretary of State, Senator & Governor, New York.
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th President of the United States
• Charles Sumner, (1811-1874), Senator from Massachusetts; leader of Radicals in Civil War and Reconstruction
• John C. Frémont (1813-1890), 1st Republican Candidate for President of the United States
• George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904), Senator from Massachusetts
• James G. Blaine (1830-1893), Senator from Maine and Presidential nominee
• Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836-1926), Speaker of the House
• Mark Hanna (1837-1904), Senator from Ohio; manager of 1896 campaign
• Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902), Speaker of the House
• Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) Senator from Massachusetts; foreign policy spokesman
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) President of the United States, (1901 - 1909)
• Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), governor of New York, 1916 nominee for president, Secretary of State, Chief Justice of the United States
• Charles G. Dawes (1865-1951), Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• Henry Stimson (1867-1950), Secretary of War for Taft and FDR; Secretary of State for Hoover
• Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Engineer, Humanitarian, Commerce Secretary, President (1929-1933)
• Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884-1951), Michigan Senator; leader of internationalism in 1940s
• Robert Alphonso Taft (1889-1953), Ohio Senator and presidential hopeful
• Earl Warren (1891-1974), Vice presidential nominee, Governor of California, and Chief Justice of the United States
• Tom Dewey (1902-1971), governor of New York; presidential nominee 1944 and 1948
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902-1985) Senator from Massachusetts; Vice Presidential nominee, and ambassador to Vietnam.
• Strom Thurmond (1902-2003), the oldest serving Senator in history (from South Carolina)
• William Fife Knowland (1908-1974) Senator from California; Senate Majority Leader: 1953-1955; Senate Minority Leader: 1955-1959
• Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), Senator from Wisconsin and noted anti-communist
• Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979), Vice President, Governor of New York, leader of liberals
• Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), President of the United States, (1981 - 1989)
• Richard Nixon, (1913-1994), 37th president of the United States
• George H. W. Bush (1924- ), President of the United States, (1989 - 1993)
• George W. Bush (1946- ), President of the United States, (2001 - present)