Before being started in Jackson, the origins of the republican party can be traced back to 1854 and the anti-Nebraska movement at a schoolhouse in Rippon, Wisconsin, where the name Republican was first thought up. It has its influence from Thomas Jefferson‘s Democratic-Republican Party
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