Massive in scope and detail, this release provides the only authoritative survey of the history, evolution, and current state of major and minor political parties in the United States at the state and national levels.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The Party System in American Politics
• A-Z Entries
• A
• Abortion and Birth Control
• Adams, Charles Francis
• Adams, John
• Addams, Jane
• Affirmative Action
• Afro-American Party, 1960s
• Agnew, Spiro
• Agricultural and Farm Policy
• Alabama
• Alaska
• Albert, Carl
• Aldrich, Nelson W.
• Allison, William B.
• America First Party, 1943–1960s
• American Beat Party, 1959–1960s
• American Independent Party, 1968–1990s
• American Labor Party, 1936–1956
• American National Party, 1874–1880
• American Party, 1886–1891
• American Party, 1919–1920
• Anderson, John B.
• Anti-Federalism, 1770s–1790s
• Anti-Masonic Party, 1826–1830s
• Anti-Monopoly Party, 1884
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• Arms Control
• Arthur, Chester A.
• B
• Baker, Howard H., Jr.
• Ballot Access Law for New and Minor Parties—History
• Bankhead, William B.
• Banks, Nathaniel P.
• Barbour, Philip P.
• Barkely, Alben
• Bell, John
• Benton, Thomas Hart
• Bentsen, Lloyd M.
• Berger, Victor
• Biden, Joseph R.
• Birney, James Gillespie
• Black and Tan Republican Parties, 1860s–1890s
• Black Panther Party, 1966–1982
• Blaine, James G.
• Blanchard, Jonathan
• Boehner, John
• Borah, William E.
• Boyd, Linn
• Breckinridge, John C.
• Browder, Earl
• Browne, Harry
• Bryan, William Jennings
• Buchanan, James
• Burns, Lucy
• Bush, George H.W.
• Bush, George W.
• Butler, Benjamin Franklin
• Byrd, Harry F.
• Byrd, Robert C.
• Byrnes, James F.
• Byrns, Joseph W.
• C
• California
• Cameron, William E.
• Cannon, James P.
• Cannon, Joseph G.
• Carlisle, John G.
• Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Toure)
• Carter, James Earl
• Cass, Lewis
• Charter and Bylaws of the Democratic Party (as amended, 2010)
• Chase, Salmon P.
• Cheney, Dick
• Cheves, Langdon
• Children
• Christian Nationalist Party, 1947–1956
• Citizens Party, 1979–1984
• Civil Liberties
• Civil Rights and the African American Community
• Clark, Champ
• Clay, Henry
• Cleaver, Eldridge
• Cleveland, Grover
• Clinton, Bill
• Clinton, Hillary Rodham
• Cobb, Howell
• Cold War
• Colfax, Schuyler
• Colorado
• Commoner, Barry
• Communist Party, 1919–
• Conkling, Roscoe
• Connecticut
• Connecticut Party, 1990–1994
• Conservative Party (New York), 1962–
• Constitution Party, 1952–1960s
• Constitution Party, 1991–
• Constitutional Union Party, 1860–1861
• Consumer Party, 1967–
• Coolidge, Calvin
• Cotton Whigs, 1830–1850s
• Cox, James M.
• Crime
• Crisp, Charles F.
• Crittenden, John J.
• Curtis, Charles
• D
• Daley, Richard J.
• Dallas, George Mifflin
• Davis, John W.
• Davis, John Wesley
• Dawes, Charles G.
• Dean, Howard
• Debs, Eugene V.
• Defense
• Delaware
• DeLay, Tom
• Democratic National Committee and Chairpersons
• Democratic National Convention, 1832
• Democratic National Convention, 1835
• Democratic National Convention, 1840
• Democratic National Convention, 1844
• Democratic National Convention, 1848
• Democratic National Convention, 1852
• Democratic National Convention, 1856
• Democratic National Convention, 1860
• Democratic National Convention, 1864
• Democratic National Convention, 1868
• Democratic National Convention, 1872
• Democratic National Convention, 1876
• Democratic National Convention, 1880
• Democratic National Convention, 1884
• Democratic National Convention, 1888
• Democratic National Convention, 1892
• Democratic National Convention, 1896
• Democratic National Convention, 1900
• Democratic National Convention, 1904
• Democratic National Convention, 1908
• Democratic National Convention, 1912
• Democratic National Convention, 1916
• Democratic National Convention, 1920
• Democratic National Convention, 1924
• Democratic National Convention, 1928
• Democratic National Convention, 1932
• Democratic National Convention, 1936
• Democratic National Convention, 1940
• Democratic National Convention, 1944
• Democratic National Convention, 1948
• Democratic National Convention, 1952
• Democratic National Convention, 1956
• Democratic National Convention, 1960
• Democratic National Convention, 1964
• Democratic National Convention, 1968
• Democratic National Convention, 1972
• Democratic National Convention, 1976
• Democratic National Convention, 1980
• Democratic National Convention, 1984
• Democratic National Convention, 1988
• Democratic National Convention, 1992
• Democratic National Convention, 1996
• Democratic National Convention, 2000
• Democratic National Convention, 2004
• Democratic National Convention, 2008
• Democratic National Convention, 2012
• Democratic Party History
• Dewey, Thomas E.
• Dirksen, Everett
• District of Columbia Statehood Green Party, 1971–
• Dole, Robert
• Douglas, Stephen A.
• Drug Policy
• Dubinsky, David
• Dukakis, Michael
• Duke, David
• E
• Economic and Monetary Policy
• Education
• Edwards, John
• Eisenhower, Dwight D.
• Elections of 1788/89–1824
• Election of 1828
• Election of 1832
• Election of 1836
• Election of 1840
• Election of 1844
• Election of 1848
• Election of 1852
• Election of 1856
• Election of 1860
• Election of 1864
• Election of 1868
• Election of 1872
• Election of 1876
• Election of 1880
• Election of 1884
• Election of 1888
• Election of 1892
• Election of 1896
• Election of 1900
• Election of 1904
• Election of 1908
• Election of 1912
• Election of 1916
• Election of 1920
• Election of 1924
• Election of 1928
• Election of 1932
• Election of 1936
• Election of 1940
• Election of 1944
• Election of 1948
• Election of 1952
• Election of 1956
• Election of 1960
• Election of 1964
• Election of 1968
• Election of 1972
• Election of 1976
• Election of 1980
• Election of 1984
• Election of 1988
• Election of 1992
• Election of 1996
• Election of 2000
• Election of 2004
• Election of 2008
• Election of 2012
• End Poverty in California, 1934–1940s
• Energy
• Environment
• Equal Rights Party, 1872–1880s
• Everett, Edward
• F
• Fairbanks, Charles
• Farley, James A.
• Farmer-Labor Party, 1916–1940s
• Federal Government, Size and Role
• Federalist Party, 1790s–1810s
• Ferraro, Geraldine
• Fessenden, William
• Fields, Edward
• Fillmore, Millard
• Finance and Funding of the Parties
• Florida
• Foley, Thomas S.
• Ford, Gerald R.
• Foreign Policy
• Foster, William Z.
• Free Soil Party, 1848–1850s
• Freedom Now Party, 1963–1965
• Freedom of Speech
• Frémont, John C.
• Fulani, Lenora
• Fulbright, J. William
• G
• Garfield, James A.
• Garner, John Nance
• Georgia
• Giddings, Joshua Reed
• Gillett, Frederick H.
• Gingrich, Newt
• Goldwater, Barry
• Gonzales, Rodolfo “Corky”
• Gore, Al, Jr.
• Government Regulation
• Grant, Ulysses S.
• Greeley, Horace
• Greenback Party, 1873–1886
• Greens, 1980s–
• Grow, Galusha A.
• Gun Control
• Gutiérrez, José Ángel
• H
• Hagelin, John
• Hale, John P.
• Hamilton, Alexander
• Hamlin, Hannibal
• Hancock, Winfield Scott
• Hanna, Mark
• Harding, Warren G.
• Harrison, Benjamin
• Harrison, William Henry
• Hastert, Dennis
• Hawaii
• Hayes, Rutherford B.
• Health Care
• Helms, Jesse
• Henderson, David B.
• Hendricks, Thomas A.
• Hobart, Garret A.
• Hoover, Herbert
• Hughes, Charles Evans
• Humphrey, Hubert H.
• Hunker Democrats, 1840s
• Hunter, Robert M.T.
• I
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Immigration
• Independent Democrats, 1832–1833
• Independent Progressive Party, 1948–1952
• Independent Republican Party, 1864
• Independent-Socialist Party, 1958–1960s
• Indiana
• Iowa
• J
• Jackson, Andrew
• Jackson, Jesse
• Jay, John
• Jobless Party, 1932
• Johnson, Andrew
• Johnson, Hiram
• Johnson, Lyndon B.
• Johnson, Richard M.
• Jones, John Winston
• K
• Kansas
• Kefauver, Estes
• Keifer, Joseph Warren
• Kennedy, Edward M.
• Kennedy, John F.
• Kennedy, Robert F.
• Kentucky
• Kerr, Michael C.
• Kerry, John
• King, William Rufus de Vane
• Know-Nothing Party, 1850s
• Koehl, Matthias, Jr.
• L
• La Follette, Robert M.
• La Guardia, Fiorello H.
• La Raza Unida Party, 1970–1981
• Labor and the Minimum Wage
• Labor Party Movement, 1930s
• Labor Party, 1990s–
• Labor Reform Party, 1872
• Landon, Alf
• LaRouche, Lyndon
• Law and Order Party of Rhode Island, 1841–1842
• Lee, Richard Henry
• Lemke, William
• Liberal Party, 1944–
• Liberal Republican Party, 1872
• Libertarian Party, 1971–
• Liberty Party, 1840–1848
• Lieberman, Joseph I. (D-I)
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Lodge, Henry Cabot
• Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.
• Long, Huey P.
• Longworth, Nicholas
• Louisiana
• Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 1966–1967
• M
• Macon, Nathaniel
• Mahone, William
• Maine
• Major Party Views: Ideologies and Partisanship (Overview)
• Mansfield, Mike
• Marcantonio, Vito
• Marshall, Thomas R.
• Martin, Joseph W., Jr.
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• McCain, John
• McCarthy, Eugene
• McCarthy, Joseph R.
• McClellan, George B.
• McConnell, Mitch
• McCormack, John W.
• McGovern, George
• McKinley, William
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Minorities
• Mississippi
• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964–1980s
• Missouri
• Mondale, Walter F.
• Montana
• Morton, Levi P.
• Muskie, Edmund S.
• N
• Nader, Ralph
• National Democratic Party of Alabama, 1967–1980s
• National Republican Party, 1820s–1830s
• National Security and Antiterrorism
• National Silver Party, 1880s–1904
• National Socialist White People's Party, 1967–
• National States’ Rights Party, 1958–1984
• National Unity Campaign, 1980
• National Woman's Party, 1916–1980s
• Natural Law Party, 1992–2004
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Alliance Party, 1979–1994
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New Party, 1992–1998
• New York
• Newman, Fred
• Newton, Huey
• Nixon, Richard M.
• Nominating Process and Electioneering
• Nonpartisan League, 1915–1956
• Norris, George W. (R-I)
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• O
• O'Neill, Thomas P. “Tip”
• Obama, Barack
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Origins of the Party System
• Orr, James Lawrence
• P
• Palin, Sarah
• Parker, Alton Brooks
• Party Leadership and Organization in Congress
• Paul, Alice
• Peace and Freedom Party, 1967–
• Pelosi, Nancy
• Pennington, William
• Pennsylvania
• People's Party, 1971–1978
• Pepper, Claude
• Perot, H. Ross
• Phillips, Howard
• Pierce, Franklin
• Polk, James K.
• Pomeroy, Theodore M.
• Poor Man's Party, 1949–1966; 1988
• Populist Movement/People's Party, 1880s–1890s
• Progressive (Bull Moose) Party, 1912–1916
• Progressive Labor Party, 1960s–
• Progressive Movement of 1924
• Progressive Party, 1948
• Prohibition
• Prohibition Party, 1869–
• Q
• Quayle, Dan
• R
• Rainey, Henry Thomas
• Randall, Samuel J.
• Rankin, Jeannette
• Rayburn, Sam
• Readjuster Party of Virginia, 1877–1883
• Reagan, Ronald
• Reconstruction and Reconstruction Amendments
• Reed, Thomas B.
• Reform Party, 1995–
• Reid, Harry M.
• Religion and Separation of Church and State
• Republican National Committee and Chairpersons
• Republican National Convention, 1856
• Republican National Convention, 1860
• Republican National Convention, 1864
• Republican National Convention, 1868
• Republican National Convention, 1872
• Republican National Convention, 1876
• Republican National Convention, 1880
• Republican National Convention, 1884
• Republican National Convention, 1888
• Republican National Convention, 1892
• Republican National Convention, 1896
• Republican National Convention, 1900
• Republican National Convention, 1904
• Republican National Convention, 1908
• Republican National Convention, 1912
• Republican National Convention, 1916
• Republican National Convention, 1920
• Republican National Convention, 1924
• Republican National Convention, 1928
• Republican National Convention, 1932
• Republican National Convention, 1936
• Republican National Convention, 1940
• Republican National Convention, 1944
• Republican National Convention, 1948
• Republican National Convention, 1952
• Republican National Convention, 1956
• Republican National Convention, 1960
• Republican National Convention, 1964
• Republican National Convention, 1968
• Republican National Convention, 1972
• Republican National Convention, 1976
• Republican National Convention, 1980
• Republican National Convention, 1984
• Republican National Convention, 1988
• Republican National Convention, 1992
• Republican National Convention, 1996
• Republican National Convention, 2000
• Republican National Convention, 2004
• Republican National Convention, 2008
• Republican National Convention, 2012
• Republican Party History
• Restoration Party, 1976
• Revels, Hiram R.
• Revolutionary Communist Party, 1975–
• Rhode Island
• Right-to-Life Party, 1970–
• Rockefeller, Nelson A.
• Rockwell, George Lincoln
• Romney, Mitt
• Roosevelt, Eleanor
• Roosevelt, Franklin D.
• Roosevelt, Theodore (R, P)
• Rose, Alex
• Rove, Karl
• Rules of the Republican Party
• Ryan, Paul
• S
• Sanders, Bernie
• Schmitz, John
• Scott, Winfield
• Seale, Bobby
• Seward, William H.
• Seymour, Horatio
• Shachtman, Max
• Share Our Wealth Movement, 1934–1935
• Sherman, James Schoolcraft
• Silver Party of Nevada, 1893–1900s
• Silver Republicans, 1891–1900
• Sinclair, Upton
• Slavery
• Smith, Alfred E.
• Smith, Gerald L.K.
• Smith, Margaret Chase
• Social Democratic Party, 1898–1901
• Social Democrats of the United States of America, 1972–
• Social Security
• Socialist Labor Party, 1876–
• Socialist Party, 1901–
• Socialist Workers Party, 1938–
• South Carolina
• South Carolina Progressive Democratic Party, 1944–1956
• South Dakota
• Southern Democrat Party, 1860
• Spargo, John
• Spock, Benjamin
• States’ Rights
• States’ Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats), 1948
• States’ Rights Party of Kentucky, 1956
• Stennis, John C.
• Stevens, Thaddeus
• Stevenson, Adlai
• Stevenson, Adlai II
• Stevenson, Andrew
• Stoner, J.B.
• Straight-Out Democratic Party, 1872
• Sumner, Charles
• Symbols, Slogans, and Songs
• T
• Taft, Robert A.
• Taft, William Howard
• Taxation
• Taylor, John W.
• Taylor, Zachary
• Tea Party Movement, 2009–
• Tennessee
• Territorial Expansion and Colonialism
• Texas
• Third Parties in American Political History
• Thomas, Norman
• Thurmond, Strom
• Tilden, Samuel J.
• Tort Reform
• Townsend, Francis
• Trade Policy
• Truman, Harry S.
• Trumbull, Lyman
• Tyler, John
• U
• Union Labor Party, 1887–1888
• Union Party, 1936
• United Christian Party, 1897–1900
• United Citizens Party, 1969–1970s
• Universal Party, 1963–1972
• Urban Policy
• Utah
• V
• Van Buren, Martin
• Vandenberg, Arthur H.
• Ventura, Jesse
• Vermont
• Vermont Progressive Coalition, 1981–
• Virginia
• Voting Rights
• W
• Wade, Benjamin Franklin
• Walker, James Barr
• Wallace, George C.
• Wallace, Henry A.
• Washington
• Watson, Thomas E.
• Weaver, James Baird
• Webster, Daniel
• Weiner, Max
• Welfare
• West Virginia
• Wheeler, Burton K.
• Wheeler, William Almon
• Whig Party, 1830s–1850s
• Willkie, Wendell
• Wilson, Henry
• Wilson, Woodrow
• Wisconsin
• Woman's Peace Party, 1914–1919
• Women's Rights
• Workers World Party, 1959–
• Workingmen's Parties, 1828–1830s; 1870s
• Wright, Jim
• Wyoming
• Chronology
• Master Bibliography