On This Day In Alabama History: Alabama Republican Party Organized
By Alabama NewsCenter Staff
When the national Republican Party first organized in 1854 with an anti-slavery platform, it did not compete in Southern states. Indeed, its 1860 nominee for president, Abraham Lincoln, did not appear on Alabama’s ballot. But the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction brought sweeping changes, and on June 4 and 5, 1867, the Alabama Republican Party held its first convention in Montgomery.
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