Today in History

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    February 22 nd 1856: The Republican Party holds its first convention in Pittsburgh. The American political party was founded by Northern Anti-slavery activists, many of whom were former members of the free Soil and Whig parties. It elected John Fremont to run in the 1856 presidential election under the slogan “free labor, free land, free men.” ...

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