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Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.
Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.
Senator Stephen A. Douglas
The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms
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
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
John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)
Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979
Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998
Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007
President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009
Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010
Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016
Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.
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
Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008
President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013
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.

One of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Grover Cleveland

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American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

Caldwell Presbyterian parsonage, birthplace of Grover Cleveland in Caldwell, New Jersey
An early, undated photograph of Grover Cleveland
Statue of Grover Cleveland outside City Hall in Buffalo, New York
Gubernatorial portrait of Grover Cleveland
An anti-Blaine cartoon presents him as the "tattooed man", with many indelible scandals.
An anti-Cleveland cartoon highlights the Halpin scandal.
Results of the 1884 election
Cleveland portrayed as a tariff reformer
Henry L. Dawes wrote the Dawes Act, which Cleveland signed into law.
Frances Folsom Cleveland circa 1886
Cleveland's first Cabinet. Front row, left to right: Thomas F. Bayard, Cleveland, Daniel Manning, Lucius Q. C. Lamar Back row, left to right: William F. Vilas, William C. Whitney, William C. Endicott, Augustus H. Garland
Chief Justice Melville Fuller
Poster President Cleveland and Vice-President of the United States, Allen G. Thurman of Ohio (1888).
Results of the 1888 Election
Results of the 1892 election
Caricature of Cleveland as anti-silver.
Cleveland's humiliation by Gorman and the sugar trust
John T. Morgan, Senator from Alabama, opposed Cleveland on Free Silver, the tariff, and the Hawaii treaty, saying of Cleveland that "I hate the ground that man walks on."
His Little Hawaiian Game Checkmated, 1894
Official portrait of President Cleveland by Eastman Johnson, c. 1891
Cleveland's last Cabinet. Front row, left to right: Daniel S. Lamont, Richard Olney, Cleveland, John G. Carlisle, Judson Harmon Back row, left to right: David R. Francis, William Lyne Wilson, Hilary A. Herbert, Julius S. Morton
Cleveland in 1903 at age 66 by Frederick Gutekunst
Outgoing President Grover Cleveland, at right, stands nearby as William McKinley is sworn in as president by Chief Justice Melville Fuller.
$1000 Gold Certificate (1934) depicting Grover Cleveland
Cleveland postage stamp issued in 1923

From his earliest involvement in politics, Cleveland aligned with the Democratic Party.

Vote for same-sex marriage ban by counties: 90–100% 80–90% 70–80% 60–70% 50–60% Vote against same-sex marriage ban by counties: 70–80% 60–70% 50–60%

2006 United States elections

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The 2006 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006, in the middle of Republican President George W. Bush's second term.

The 2006 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006, in the middle of Republican President George W. Bush's second term.

Vote for same-sex marriage ban by counties: 90–100% 80–90% 70–80% 60–70% 50–60% Vote against same-sex marriage ban by counties: 70–80% 60–70% 50–60%

Democrats won control of both houses of Congress, which was the first and only time either party did so since the 1994 elections.

Conservative Democrat

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In American politics, a conservative Democrat is a member of the Democratic Party with conservative political views, or with views that are conservative compared to the positions taken by other members of the Democratic Party.

New Frontier

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The term New Frontier was used by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him.

Thurmond in 1961

Strom Thurmond

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American politician, military officer, and attorney who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003.

American politician, military officer, and attorney who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003.

Thurmond in 1961
Strom Thurmond as Governor
Statue of Thurmond outside the South Carolina State Capitol
Thurmond & Yarborough after the wrestling match
Thurmond with President Richard Nixon in 1969
Thurmond (far right) campaigning for Ronald Reagan in Columbia, South Carolina in 1980
Margaret Thatcher and Thurmond at a state dinner in 1981
Thurmond and Vice President George H. W. Bush at a 1986 gubernatorial campaign rally for Representative Carroll A. Campbell Jr.
President Ronald Reagan with Thurmond in the Oval Office in 1987
Thurmond during his later career
In the text accompanying Strom Thurmond's statue at the Statehouse grounds, the phrase: "The father of four children," had the "four" replaced with "five" after Thurmond's fatherhood of Essie Mae Washington-Williams became public.
The Thurmond family with President Gerald Ford in 1976
President George W. Bush with Thurmond on his 100th birthday in 2002
Bust of Thurmond by Frederick E. Hart, held by the U.S. Senate
Thurmond receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H. W. Bush, 1993

Thurmond was a member of the Democratic Party until 1964 when he joined the Republican Party for the remainder of his legislative career.

Women marching for the right to vote, 1912

Progressivism in the United States

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Political philosophy and reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th century.

Political philosophy and reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th century.

Women marching for the right to vote, 1912
"The Bosses of the Senate", a cartoon by Joseph Keppler depicting corporate interests–from steel, copper, oil, iron, sugar, tin, and coal to paper bags, envelopes and salt–as giant money bags looming over the tiny senators at their desks in the Chamber of the United States Senate
A poster highlighting the situation of child labor in the United States in the early 20th century
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle exposed Americans to the horrors of the Chicago meatpacking plants.
Senator Bernie Sanders, an advocate of single-payer healthcare
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York, an advocate of action on climate change and author of the Green New Deal

The American Federation of Labor under Samuel Gompers after 1907 began supporting the Democrats, who promised more favorable judges as the Republicans appointed pro-business judges.

War Democrat

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War Democrats in American politics of the 1860s were members of the HiDemocratic Party who supported the Union and rejected the policies of the Copperheads (or Peace Democrats).

War Democrats in American politics of the 1860s were members of the HiDemocratic Party who supported the Union and rejected the policies of the Copperheads (or Peace Democrats).

This led to victory over the Democrats, led by Copperhead Clement Vallandigham.

Official portrait, 2019

Nancy Pelosi

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American politician serving as speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019, and previously from 2007 to 2011.

American politician serving as speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019, and previously from 2007 to 2011.

Official portrait, 2019
Pelosi, her mother, and President John F. Kennedy watch as her father is sworn in as a member of the Renegotiation Board, 1961.
Pelosi as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1993
President George W. Bush meets with Speaker-designate Pelosi and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer on November 9, 2006.
Pelosi and Barack Obama shaking hands at the 2008 Democratic National Convention
President Barack Obama meets with Congressional Leadership, July 2011.
Pelosi speaking at the United States Department of Labor on Equal Pay Day
Pelosi greets DREAMers fasting outside the Capitol, September 2017.
Congressional leaders in January 2020
Pelosi signs the article of impeachment for the second impeachment of Donald Trump on January 13, 2021.
Pelosi delivers remarks on the American Rescue Plan in March 2021.
Pelosi and Keith Ellison at his swearing-in ceremony with Thomas Jefferson's Quran in 2007
Pelosi with Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, at a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in 2012
Pelosi at the 2013 San Francisco Pride Festival
Capitol workers remove the portrait of former House Speaker Howell Cobb of Georgia from a wall in the Speaker's Lobby of the U.S. Capitol.
Pelosi at the Tax March in San Francisco, April 2017
Nancy Pelosi at 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25)
Nancy Pelosi at 2019 End Gun Violence, September 27, 2019
President George W. Bush and Pelosi honoring 300 Tuskegee Airmen at the Capitol, March 2007
Donald Trump with Pelosi in January 2017
Pelosi and Debbie Wasserman Schultz have supported Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó.
Pelosi with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a trip to China in 2009
Pelosi with Hong Kong activists who have become prominent figures in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests
Pelosi and John Kerry at Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana, Cuba, March 2016
Pelosi before greeting the new King Salman of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, January 2015
Pelosi with service members stationed at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, 2010
Pelosi at AIPAC's annual Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.
Pelosi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, January 2020
Pelosi meeting with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, and ambassador Sergey Kislyak, June 2010
The city of San Francisco named a street in Golden Gate Park in honor of Pelosi after her many years representing the city in Congress.
Pelosi at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2022

A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi is the only woman to have served as speaker of the U.S. House.

During the break-in, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy remained in contact with each other and with the burglars by radio. These Chapstick tubes outfitted with tiny microphones were later discovered in Hunt's White House office safe.

Watergate scandal

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Major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation.

Major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation.

During the break-in, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy remained in contact with each other and with the burglars by radio. These Chapstick tubes outfitted with tiny microphones were later discovered in Hunt's White House office safe.
Transistor radio used in the Watergate break-in
Walkie-talkie used in Watergate break-in
DNC filing cabinet from the Watergate office building, damaged by the burglars
Address book of Watergate burglar Bernard Barker, discovered in a room at the Watergate Hotel, June 18, 1972
Garage in Rosslyn where Woodward and Felt met. Also visible is the historical marker erected by the county to note its significance.
Minority counsel Fred Thompson, ranking member Howard Baker, and chair Sam Ervin of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973
President Nixon explaining release of edited transcripts, April 29, 1974
House Judiciary Committee members and staff, 1974
Nixon's resignation letter, August 9, 1974. Pursuant to federal law, the letter was addressed to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. When Kissinger initialed the letter at 11:35 a.m., Ford officially became president.
Oliver F. Atkins' photo of Nixon leaving the White House shortly before his resignation became effective, August 9, 1974
Oliver F. Atkins' photo of Nixon leaving the White House on Marine One shortly before his resignation became effective, August 9, 1974
Pen used by President Gerald R. Ford to pardon Richard Nixon on September 8, 1974
One of a variety of anti-Ford buttons generated during the 1976 presidential election: it reads "Gerald ... Pardon me!" and depicts a thief cracking a safe labeled "Watergate".

On January 27, 1972, G. Gordon Liddy, Finance Counsel for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP) and former aide to John Ehrlichman, presented a campaign intelligence plan to CRP's acting chairman Jeb Stuart Magruder, Attorney General John Mitchell, and Presidential Counsel John Dean that involved extensive illegal activities against the Democratic Party.

Herschel Vespasian Johnson

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American politician.

American politician.

Herschel V. Johnson around the time he ran for vice president

He was the 41st Governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the vice presidential nominee of the Douglas wing of the Democratic Party in the 1860 U.S. presidential election.