Republicans in History: Charles Curtis
The first Native American to be Vice President of the United States of America was a Republican. Charles Curtis was…
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Republicans in History: Jane Bolin
Jane Bolin was busting through barriers long before it was fashionable. She graduated from Yale Law School in 1932. At the time she was one of only three women and the first African American woman to obtain a law degree…
Republicans in History: Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in 1919 in the Deep South to a sharecropper family, the youngest of five children. …
Republicans in History: Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis Crosby Jr. was born in 1903 in Tacoma, Washington, the fourth son in a large family of seven…
Republicans in History: Walt Disney
Everyone knows who Walt Disney was. He is an American cultural icon. His cartoons and characters can be found in…
Republicans in History: Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City’s Favorite Son
Fiorello LaGuardia was born in Greenwich Village and died in the Bronx. He was truly a native son of New…
Republicans in History: Clara Barton
This Republican in History found her life vocation at a very early age. At only ten years old, a young…
Republicans in History: Ida B Wells
Nearly 70 years before Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells, an outspoken Republican, and civil rights activist, was forcibly removed from…
Republicans in History: Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone was an activist, trailblazer, and figured prominently at the forefront of the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movement. Lucy…
Republicans in History: Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer was born in a steel mill town in Pennsylvania in 1929. His father was the groundskeeper and head…