American Republican Party (1843)

The American Republican Party was a minor anti-Catholic, anti-immigration and nativist political organization that was launched in New York in June 1843, largely as a protest against immigrant voters and officeholders.

Not to be confused with Republican Party (United States).
American Republicans
Founded1843 (1843)
Dissolved1845 (1845)
Preceded byWhig Party
Merged intoNative American Party
HeadquartersNew York City
Ideology
Political positionFar-right[1][2]
ReligionProtestantism
Colors  Red   White   Blue

In 1844, the American Republican Party carried municipal elections in New York City and Philadelphia and expanded so rapidly that by July 1845 a national convention was called.[3] This convention changed the name to the Native American Party and drafted a legislative program calling for a twenty-one-year period preceding naturalization and other sweeping reforms in the immigration policy. Failure to force congressional action on these proposals, combined with the growing national interest in the Mexican problem before the Mexican–American War, led to the party's rapid decline.

Its founders included Lewis Charles Levin, Samuel Kramer, "General" Peter Sken Smith, James Wallace, and John Gitron.[4]

See also

References
  1. Caiani, Manuela; Porta, Donatella della; Wagemann, Claudius (2012). Mobilizing on the Extreme Right: Germany, Italy, and the United States. Oxford University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-19-964126-0. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  2. Mudde, Cas (2017). The Far Right in America. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-66338-0. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  3. LeMay, Michael. Transforming America: Perspectives on U.S. Immigration. ABC-CLIO. p. 220.
  4. John A. Forman, “Lewis Charles Levin: Portrait of an American Demagogue”, American Jewish Archives. The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OH, (October 1960): 150–94

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