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National Republican Party (U.S.)

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Corporate name headingNational Republican Party (U.S.)
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Variant(s)National Republican Party
Anti-Jacksonian Party
See alsoWhig Party (U.S.)
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Beginning date1828
Ending date1834
Associated countryUnited States
Found inBrown, T. Politics and statesmanship, 1985: CIP t.p. (American Whig Party)
LC manual cat. (hdg.: National Republican Party; this term was used by that section of the old Republican Party which supported J.Q. Adams, in distinction from the adherents of Jackson, who adopted the name Democrats; about 1834, "Whig" superseded "National Republican" as the party identification)
Wikipedia, viewed Sept. 19, 2017 (National Republican Party; also known as the Anti-Jacksonian Party; founded in 1828, dissolved in 1834; during the administration of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), the president's supporters were referred to as Adams' Men; when Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828, this group went into opposition; the use of the term National Republican dates from 1830; Henry Clay served as the party's nominee in the 1832 election, but he was defeated by Jackson; after the 1832 election, opponents of Jackson coalesced into the Whig Party; National Republicans, Anti-Masons, and others joined the new party)