This is the Birthplace, the original little schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, USA, where the Republican Party was born. In early 1854, an anti-slavery group of men, dissatisfied with the Whig Party, gathered to decide on a new organization that would fight against allowing slavery in new States. Another, larger group, soon met in Jackson, Michigan. In June 1854, New York newspaper magnate Horace Greeley suggested that the new organization be called "Republicans." It stuck. To see my other politics-related images, Search: Prestor vintage politics

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Location: Ripon, Wisconsin, USA
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