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Republican Party (United States) presidential nominees
- Donald TrumpDonald Trump was born on the 14th of June 1946 at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York, the fourth child of a family that was already wealthy. He would grow up in a 23-room mansion, become a millionaire in inflation-adjusted terms before…
- Ronald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was born on the 6th of February 1911 in a rented apartment above a bakery in Tampico, Illinois, the younger son of a dreaming salesman and a devoted churchwoman. By the time he died on the 5th of June 2004, he had been…
- Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky on the 12th of February 1809, and he died with a bullet in the back of his head at twenty-two minutes past seven on a April morning in 1865. Between those two facts sits the most…
- Richard NixonRichard Nixon was the only president in American history to resign from the office he held. On the 9th of August, 1974, he stepped away from the presidency under the weight of the Watergate scandal, a crisis rooted in a break-in at the…
- Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest on the 14th of October 1912, while on his way to give a campaign speech in Milwaukee. The bullet passed through his eyeglass case and a 50-page folded copy of his speech before lodging in his chest…
- William McKinleyWilliam McKinley stepped onto the front porch of his Canton, Ohio, home in the summer of 1896 and met the world. Delegations arrived by train, marching through the streets to hear him speak. The railroads had subsidized the excursion rates…
- Ulysses S. GrantUlysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on the 27th of April 1822, in Ohio, and by the time he died on the 23rd of July 1885, he had commanded the largest army in American history, won the Civil War, and served two terms as…
- Benjamin HarrisonBenjamin Harrison holds a peculiar distinction in American history: he is the only person to have served as president between two terms of the same opponent. In 1888, he defeated the incumbent Grover Cleveland. Four years later, Cleveland…
- Rutherford B. HayesRutherford B. Hayes became the 19th president of the United States under a cloud so thick that his critics called him "Rutherfraud" and "His Fraudulency" for every day of his four years in office. He had won the presidency by a single…
- James A. GarfieldJames A. Garfield arrived at the presidency having never once sought the job. At the 1880 Republican National Convention in Chicago, delegates spent 35 ballots locked in a stalemate between Ulysses S. Grant and James G. Blaine. On the 36th…
- Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight David Eisenhower drafted a message he hoped no one would ever read. On the eve of the D-Day landings on the 6th of June 1944, he wrote a short statement taking full personal responsibility if the assault on Normandy failed. 'If any…
- John C. FrémontJohn Charles Frémont was born on the 21st of January 1813, the illegitimate son of a French-Canadian schoolteacher and a Virginia planter's daughter who had fled her elderly husband. He died destitute in New York City in 1890. Between…