EPISODE · Mar 20, 2026 · 1 MIN
March 20 - The Birth of the Republican Party
from Labor History in 2:00 · host The Rick Smith Show
On this day in Labor History the year was 1854. That was the day that the founders of what became the Republican Party met in Ripon, Wisconsin. The idea was to form a new party, opposed to the Southern labor system based on slavery. That July the Republicans held their first convention in Michigan.
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