In the presidential election of eighteen-sixty, he supported his party's candidate, not the candidate of the Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

And it was commissioned by the National Woman's Party in nineteen twenty after women finally got the vote."

VOA: special.2010.01.27

The delegates agreed that a man must win two-thirds of the convention's votes to be the party's candidate.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Voters also elected nine House members and two Senators from a new political organization -- the People's Party.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

At the party's other extreme were the Democrats of the South, led by John C.Calhoun of South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Southern members supported it. Delegates to the convention chose a candidate who seemed to support the party's policies.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

America's third party at that time -- The People's Party -- had a difficult decision to make.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Long-time Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced he is leaving the Republicans to join the president's Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

The president's feelings were hurt when none of the party leaders thought that his idea was important.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The People's Party chose James Weaver as its candidate in the presidential election of eighteen ninety-two.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

It soon became clear that Lincoln would be the party's presidential candidate in the election.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

He asked Democrats for their support in the party's presidential primary elections in nineteen sixty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Two years later, he became famous by speaking at the Democratic Party's national nominating convention.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Other populists feared that such a union would mean the end of the People's Party.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

The People's Party candidate, James Weaver, won one million popular votes and twenty-two electoral votes.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

In nineteen fifty-two, she supported the Republican Party's candidate for president, former General Dwight Eisenhower.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

In nineteen sixty-four, she supported Senator Barry Goldwater as the Republican Party's candidate for president.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

This week in our series, Jack Weitzel and Tony Riggs tell how Grant's problems affected the Republican Party in the presidential election of eighteen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

They did not want him to be the party's candidate in that year's election.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Republican Senator John McCain, the party's presidential candidate in two thousand eight, praised him for his ability to reach across party lines to pass important legislation.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

And in nineteen twenty, he was the Democratic Party's unsuccessful candidate for vice president.

VOA: special.2011.03.17

And ten years later, in two thousand eight, he was one of the first top Democrats to support a young senator seeking the party's nomination for president.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

On the fourth vote, the convention chose Cass as the party's presidential candidate.

VOA: special.2009.03.05