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===‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍__ WHY THE ELEPHANT?‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ __===

The strong, dignified elephant has represented the Republican party since 1874. It all happened through a simple politicalcartoon drawn by Thomas Nast. The cartoon was published in Harper's Weekly in 1874.
 * ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Originated in 1854-1856 ‍‍‍‍‍‍
 * ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍The Republican party is popularly known as the GOP, from its earlier nickname of the Grand Old Party. From it's first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont, in 1856, through Republican George W Bush in 2000, Republicans have occupied the White House for 84 years.‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
 * The Republican party is the second oldest currently existing political party in the USA next to the Democrate party. The republican party started in 1854 because of the Kansas Nebraska Act which was striving to extend slavery in the states. It was formed out of the ashes of the WHIG PARTY and NO NOTHING PARTY.

List of Republican Presidents source:www.republicanpresidents.net __3 FAMOUS REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS __ > Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It freed all slaves within the Confederacy.
 * ~ 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 ||
 * ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍When Abraham Lincoln was elected, 7 slave states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America
 * Lincoln firmly expressed opposition to slavery and his determination to limit the expansion of slavery.His election victory was a crisis for southern democrats. They feared that Lincoln would kill all slavery in the south! (whch he did)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍


 * ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍George W. Bush was the 18th Republican president.
 * He created the Department of Homeland Security.
 * He successfully broke up the Taliban.
 * He delivered tax cuts that he promised in his campaign.‍‍‍‍‍‍‍




 * Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the USA.
 * He ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍was a Dominate General in the Civil War in defeating the Confedererms as president ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
 * He effectivily eliminated the KU KLUX KLAN
 * Grant served two terms a president of the USA

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