The acronym dates back to the 1870s, about the same time the party picked up its elephant logo. The name ... formation of the stand-alone Republican Party in the 1850s. The original Republican ...

It stands for Grand Old Party and the moniker stems from the second half of the 1800s, around the same time that the party began using an elephant as its logo ... 1850s, a stand-alone Republican ...

the GOP may well be destined to become the modern-day equivalent of the Whig Party of 1850, which is now extinct. Of course, it remains to be seen if levelheaded members of Republican leadership ...

If you're a Republican ... Party — continued to look for a political Plan B. Alvan E. Bovay, a politically active developer and speculator from New York, settled in Ripon in 1850.