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The Doomed Democrats and the birth of party conventions
In the early republic Washington warned of elections fault lines as party factions grew. The piece traces the evolution of Democratic and related parties from Jefferson era Republicans through Jacksonian democracy to the 1860 crisis highlighting conventions, dark horses, and factional splits.
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George Washington
Washington
United States of America
New York
Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Mr. Jackson
James K. Polk
Martin van Buren
Lewis Cass
van Buren
Cass