A report on Political parties in the United States, Democratic Party (United States) and History of the Republican Party (United States)

Popular votes to political parties during presidential elections.
Political parties derivation. Dotted line means unofficially.
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.
Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President (1861–1865)
Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.
This Democratic editorial cartoon links John C. Frémont to other radical movements including temperance, feminism, Fourierism, free love, Catholicism and abolition
Senator Stephen A. Douglas
National Union ticket in 1864 as party men gave these to voters to deposit in the ballot box
The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms
African-American members of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives: Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS) and Reps. Benjamin Turner (R-AL), Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Josiah Walls (R-FL), Jefferson Long (R-GA), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott (R-SC), 1872
Leaders of the Democratic Party during the first half of the 20th century on 14 June 1913: Secretary of State William J. Bryan, Josephus Daniels, President Woodrow Wilson, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant was the first Republican president to serve for two full terms (1869–1877)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 32nd and 33rd presidents of the United States (1933–1945; 1945–1953), featured on a campaign poster for the 1944 presidential election
An 1896 Republican poster warns against free silver
John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)
Theodore Roosevelt leads party to landslide win in 1904
Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979
Theodore Roosevelt's 1908 Farewell speeches sought progressive laws that did not pass Congress
Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998
President Theodore Roosevelt watches the party team pull apart on tariff issue
Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, 1953: the first Republican presidential inauguration in 24 years
President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009
Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater was a key figure of the American conservative movement in the 1950s and 1960s
Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Richard Nixon currently holds the record for most states won in a presidential election, 49 excluding Massachusetts and D.C. in 1972
President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010
Ronald Reagan launched the "Reagan Revolution" with his election to the presidency in 1980, providing conservative influence that continues to the present day
Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016
George H. W. Bush, the first former vice president to become president by vote rather than by the death or resignation of the sitting president since 1836, ended the Cold War during his term
Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.
Newt Gingrich, House Speaker (1995–1999), was the most visible adversary for President Bill Clinton
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and others look on
The presidency of George W. Bush was greatly impacted by the events of the September 11th terrorist attacks
Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008
John Boehner, House Speaker (2011–2015), was the most visible adversary for President Barack Obama
President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978
2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was the first Mormon nominated for president by either major party
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013
Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States
Self-identified Democrats (blue) versus self-identified Republicans (red) (January–June 2010 data)
Higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans are members of union households.
Elected at age 33, Jon Ossoff is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.
Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg
Vice President Kamala Harris
Julián Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Since the 1850s, they have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

- Political parties in the United States

It is the second-oldest extant political party in the United States after its rival, the Democratic Party.

- History of the Republican Party (United States)

Two major parties dominated the political landscape: the Whig Party, led by Henry Clay, that grew from the National Republican Party; and the Democratic Party, led by Andrew Jackson.

- Political parties in the United States

In 1854, angry with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, anti-slavery Democrats left the party and joined Northern Whigs to form the Republican Party.

- Democratic Party (United States)
Popular votes to political parties during presidential elections.

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