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Originally posted by Spanky
1856 - John Fremont? Dems - Andrew Jackson or Thomas Jefferson - opinoins vary. But people have been sacrificing policy for political gain since the beginning of the Republic.
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There was a nice history in the NYT Mag a couple of weeks ago, apparently cribed from
wikipedia. Anyway, depends on whether you mean founded by name or practice, as the GOP grew out of the whigs, whicch were founded earlier.
