American Republican Party (1843)
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American Republican Party | |
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 Third District American Republican Watch Association Ribbon | |
| Founded | 1843 |
| Dissolved | 1845 |
| Preceded by | Whig Party |
| Merged into | Native American Party |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-right[1][2] |
| Religion | Protestantism |
| Colors | Red White Blue (American flag colors) |
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The American Republican Party was a minor anti-Catholic, anti-immigration and nativist political organization that was launched in New York in June 1843, largely as a protest against immigrant voters and officeholders.
In 1844, the American Republican Party carried municipal elections in New York City and Philadelphia and expanded so rapidly that by July 1845 a national convention was called.[3] This convention changed the name to the Native American Party and drafted a legislative program calling for a twenty-one-year period preceding naturalization and other sweeping reforms in the immigration policy. Failure to force congressional action on these proposals, combined with the growing national interest in the Mexican problem before the Mexican–American War, led to the party's rapid decline.[citation needed]
Its founders included Lewis Charles Levin, Samuel Kramer, "General" Peter Sken Smith, James Wallace, and John Gitron.[4]
See also[]
- Free Soil Party
- Know Nothing Party
- The Crisis!: An Appeal to Our Countrymen, on the Subject of Foreign Influence in the United States!, a book published by the General Executive Committee of the American Republican Party in 1844 to describe the organization's anti-immigrant message.
References[]
- ^ Caiani, Manuela; Porta, Donatella della; Wagemann, Claudius (2012). Mobilizing on the Extreme Right: Germany, Italy, and the United States. Oxford University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-19-964126-0. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ Mudde, Cas (2017). The Far Right in America. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-66338-0. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ LeMay, Michael. Transforming America: Perspectives on U.S. Immigration. ABC-CLIO. p. 220.
- ^ John A. Forman, “Lewis Charles Levin: Portrait of an American Demagogue”, American Jewish Archives. The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OH, (October 1960): 150–94
Sources[]
- Adams, James Truslow. Dictionary of American History, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.
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