Republican National Committee
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- Oct 31, 2008 Rumors of voter suppression in northern California
- Oct 31, 2008 Florida Democrats don't buy the RNC answer on voter-caging concerns
- Oct 29, 2008 Elderly and Latino voter disenfranchisement in Arizona
- Oct 27, 2008 Montana GOP accused of vote caging plan
- Oct 23, 2008 More court challenges for early voting site in Indiana
- Oct 21, 2008 NC Dems guard against GOP voter intimidation
The Republican National Committee (RNC) provides national leadership for the Republican Party of the United States. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Republican political platform, as well as coordinating fundraising and election strategy. It is also responsible for organizing and running the Republican National Convention. The current chairman is Mike Duncan. Similar committees exist in every U.S. state and most counties, although in some states party organization is structured by congressional district, allied campaign organizations being governed by a national committee.
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History
The 1856 Republican National Convention appointed the first RNC. It consisted of one member from each state and territory to serve for four years. Each national convention since then has followed the precedent of one representative per state or territory, regardless of population. From 1924 to 1952 there was a national committeeman and national committeewoman from each state and U.S. possession, and from Washington, D.C. In 1952, committee membership was expanded to include the state party chairs of states that voted Republican in the preceding presidential election, have a Republican majority in their combined U.S. representatives and senators, or have Republican governors. By 1968, membership reached 145. The only person to have chaired the RNC and later become US president is George H.W. Bush. A number of the chairs of the RNC have been state governors.
Chairpersons of the Republican National Committee
|
Chairperson |
Term |
State[1] |
|---|---|---|
| Edwin D. Morgan | 1856-1864 | New York |
| Henry J. Raymond | 1864-1866 | New York |
| Marcus L. Ward | 1866-1868 | New Jersey |
| William Claflin | 1868-1872 | Massachusetts |
| Edwin D. Morgan | 1872-1876 | New York |
| Zachariah Chandler | 1876-1879 | Michigan |
| J. Donald Cameron | 1879-1880 | Pennsylvania |
| Marshall Jewell | 1880-1883 | Connecticut |
| Dwight M. Sabin | 1883-1884 | Minnesota |
| B. F. Jones | 1887-1888 | New Jersey |
| Matthew S. Quay | 1888-1891 | Pennsylvania |
| James S. Clarkson | 1891-1892 | Iowa |
| Thomas H. Carter | 1892-1896 | Montana |
| Marcus A. Hanna | 1896-1904 | Ohio |
| Henry Clay Payne | 1904 | Wisconsin |
| George Bruce Cortelyou | 1904-1907 | New York |
| Harry S. New | 1907-1908 | Indiana |
| Frank Harris Hitchcock | 1908-1909 | Ohio |
| John Fremont Hill | 1910-1912 | Maine |
| Victor Rosewater | 1912 | Nebraska |
| Charles D. Hilles | 1912-1916 | New York |
| Will H. Hays | 1918-1921 | Indiana |
| John T. Adams | 1921-1924 | Iowa |
| William M. Butler | 1925 | Massachusetts |
| Hubert Work | 1928-1929 | Colorado |
| Claudius H. Huston | 1929-1930 | Tennessee |
| Simeon D. Fess | 1931 | Ohio |
| Everett Sanders | 1932-1934 | Indiana |
| Henry P. Fletcher | 1934-1936 | Pennsylvania |
| John Hamilton | 1936-1937 | Kansas |
| Joseph W. Martin, Jr. | 1940-1942 | Massachusetts |
| Bailey Walsh | 1942 | Tennessee |
| Harrison E. Spangler | 1942-1944 | Iowa |
| Herbert Brownell, Jr. | 1944-1946 | New York |
| Carroll Reece | 1946-1948 | Tennessee |
| Hugh D. Scott, Jr. | 1948-1949 | Pennsylvania |
| Guy G. Gabrielson | 1949-1952 | New Jersey |
| Arthur E. Summerfield | 1952-1953 | Michigan |
| Wesley Roberts | 1953 | Kansas |
| Leonard W. Hall | 1953-1957 | New York |
| Meade Alcorn | 1957-1959 | Connecticut |
| Thruston B. Morton | 1959-1961 | Kentucky |
| William E. Miller | 1961-1964 | New York |
| Dean Burch | 1964-1965 | Arizona |
| Ray C. Bliss | 1965-1969 | Ohio |
| Rogers C. B. Morton | 1969-1971 | Maryland |
| Robert Dole | 1971-1973 | Kansas |
| George H. W. Bush | 1973-1974 | Texas |
| Mary Louise Smith | 1974-1977 | Iowa |
| William E. Brock III | 1977-1981 | Tennessee |
| Richard Richards | 1981-1983 | Utah |
| Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr. | 1983-1989 | Nevada |
| Lee Atwater | 1989-1991 | South Carolina |
| Clayton Keith Yeutter | 1991-1992 | Nebraska |
| Richard Bond | 1992-1993 | Missouri |
| Haley Barbour | 1993-1997 | Mississippi |
| Jim Nicholson | 1997-2001 | Colorado |
| Jim Gilmore | 2001-2002 | Virginia |
| Marc Racicot | 2002-2003 | Montana |
| Ed Gillespie | 2003-2005 | Virginia |
| Ken Mehlman | 2005-2007 | Washington, D.C. |
| Mike Duncan | 2007-present | Kentucky |
Election day operations
Vote fraud activities
Accusations of voter supression
2008
2006
- CA: The California Republican Party and its 2006 voter registration efforts were accused of repeat-registrations and accused of vote fraud while registering 700,000 new voters in 2006.[2]
2004
Additional reading
External links
References
- ↑ The Political Graveyard web site, A Database of Historic Cemeteries, accessed July 17, 2006.
- ↑ "Alternet" October, 2008
Portions of this article were adapted from Wikipedia.
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