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Origin of Indiana Republican party 1854 to 1860
Indiana politics in the 1850s shifts as Democrats win briefly while Free Soilers and Whigs fade. Temperance advocates push for a Maine Law and a new party emerges from coalition across Catholics Protestants natives and foreigners. The movement grows through state conventions and temperance meetings aiming to unite anti Democratic forces.
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Republican Party
Indiana
Althe
Indianapolis
Joseph A. Wright
A. P. Willard
Free Soilers
Whigs
Nicholas McCarty
William Williams
Warsaw
Wilmot
Free Soil Convention
A. L. Robinson
Vanderburg
J. P. Millikan
Decatur
S. W. Parker
House
Senate
Free Soil Party
New Albany Ledger
Democratic Party
Republican Party of
Maine
West
South Bend
Madison
General Assembly
Indiana Supreme Court
Cally
Mt. Sterling
Switzerland
Ohio
The
State Journal
State Sentinel