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Alvan E. Bovay

We went in ... Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. We came out of it Republicans.

On March 20, 1854 a group of disaffected politicians met in a schoolhouse in Rippon, Wisconsin:. It was the birth of the Republican party.

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Your paper is now a power in the land. Advocate calling together in every church and schoolhouse in the free states all the opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, no matter what their previous party affiliations and to band together under the name I suggested to you ... in 1852. I mean the name "Republican.

This was the origin of the name of the Republican Party.

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Alvan E. Bovay

Born: July 12, 1818
Died: January 13, 1903
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Biography

Major Alvan Earle Bovay was an American politician and one of the founders of the US Republican Party.

ALVAN E. BOVAY

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