Democratic - Republican party - wikipedia Democratic - Republican party Not to be confused with the Democratic Party or the Republican Party of the United States. `` Democratic Republican '' redirects here. For other uses, see Democratic Republican ( disambiguation ). Democratic - Republican Party Other name Republicans, Democrats, Jeffersonians Leader Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe Founded 1792 ( 1792 ) Dissolved 1825 ( 1825 ) Preceded by Anti-Administration party Succeeded by Democratic Party ( Jacksonians ) National Republican Party ( Anti-Jacksonians ) Anti-Masonic Party Ideology Classical liberalism Agrarianism Anti-Federalism Jeffersonianism Republicanism Colors Red White Blue Politics of United States Political parties Elections The Democratic - Republican Party was an American political party formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison around 1792 to oppose the centralizing policies of the new Federalist Party run by Alexander Hamilton, who was secretary of the treasury and chief architect of George Washington 's administration. From 1801 to 1825, the new party controlled the presidency and Congress as well as most states during the First Party System. It began in 1791 as one faction in Congress and included many politicians who had been opposed to the new constitution. They called themselves `` Republicans '' after their ideology, republicanism. They distrusted the Federalist commitment to republicanism. The party splintered in 1824, with the faction loyal to Andrew Jackson coalescing into the Jacksonian movement ( which would soon acquire the name `` Democratic Party '' ), the faction led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay forming the National Republican Party, and some other groups going on form the Anti-Masonic Party ( later succeeded by the Whig Party ). During the time that this party existed, it was usually referred to as the Republican Party. To distinguish it from the modern Republican Party ( founded in 1854 ), historians, political scientists, and pundits often refer to this party as the Democratic - Republican Party or the Jeffersonian Republican Party. It is often referred to by members and supporters of the modern Democratic Party, though sparingly by most scholars, as the Jeffersonian Democratic Party or, simply, the Democratic Party, generally to emphasize continuity with the modern party for the purposes of party politics ; its name, however, inspired that of the modern Republican Party. The party arose from the `` Anti-Administration '' faction which met secretly in the national capital ( Philadelphia ) to oppose Hamilton 's financial programs. Jefferson denounced the programs as leading to monarchy and subversive of republicanism. Jefferson needed to have a nationwide party to challenge the Federalists, which Hamilton was building up with allies in major cities. Foreign affairs took a leading role in 1794 -- 1795 as the Republicans vigorously opposed the Jay Treaty with the United Kingdom, which was then at war with France. Republicans saw France as more democratic after its revolution, while the UK represented the hated monarchy. The party denounced many of Hamilton 's measures as unconstitutional, especially the national bank. The party was strongest in the South and weakest in the Northeast. It demanded states ' rights as expressed by the `` Principles of 1798 '' articulated in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions that would allow states to nullify a federal law. Above all, the party stood for the primacy of the yeoman farmers. Republicans were deeply committed to the principles of republicanism, which they feared were threatened by the supposed monarchical tendencies of the Hamiltonian Federalists. The party came to power in 1801 with the election of Jefferson in the 1800 presidential election. The Federalists -- too elitist to appeal to most people -- faded away and totally collapsed after 1815. Despite internal divisions, the Republicans dominated the First Party System until partisanship itself withered away during the Era of Good Feelings after 1816. The party selected its presidential candidates in a caucus of members of Congress. They included Thomas Jefferson ( nominated 1796 ; elected 1800 -- 1801, 1804 ), James Madison ( 1808, 1812 ) and James Monroe ( 1816, 1820 ). By 1824, the caucus system had practically collapsed. After 1800, the party dominated Congress and most state governments outside New England. By 1824, the party was also split four ways and lacked a center, as the First Party System collapsed. The emergence of the Second Party System in the 1820s and 30s realigned the old factions. One remnant followed Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren into the new Democratic Party by 1828. Another remnant, led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay formed the National Republican Party in 1824, while some remaining smaller factions formed the Anti-Masonic Party, which along with some National Republican groups, developed into the Whig Party by 1836. Most remaining National Republicans would soon after go on to be a part of the Free - Soil and modern Republican Parties in the 1840s and 50s. Contents 1 Founding 2 Presidential elections of 1792 and 1796 3 Strength in Congress over time 4 Organizational strategy 5 Revolution of 1800 5.1 National debt 6 Monroe and Adams ( 1816 -- 1828 ) 7 Republican Party name 8 Legacy 9 Presidents 10 Electoral history 10.1 Presidential elections 10.2 Congressional elections 11 See also 12 References 13 Bibliography 13.1 Biographies 13.2 State studies 13.3 Newspapers 13.4 Primary sources 14 External links Founding James Madison Thomas Jefferson Congressman James Madison started the party among Representatives in Philadelphia ( then the national capital ) as the `` Republican Party ''. Then he, Jefferson and others reached out to include state and local leaders around the country, especially New York and the South. The precise date of founding is disputed, but 1791 is a reasonable estimate and some time by 1792 is certain. The new party set up newspapers that made withering critiques of Hamiltonianism, extolled the yeoman farmer, argued for strict construction of the Constitution, favored the French Revolution, strongly opposed the UK and called for stronger state governments than the Federalist Party was proposing. Presidential elections of 1792 and 1796 The elections of 1792 were the first ones to be contested on anything resembling a partisan basis. In most states the congressional elections were recognized, as Jefferson strategist John Beckley put it, as a `` struggle between the Treasury department and the republican interest ''. In New York, the candidates for governor were John Jay, a Federalist ; and incumbent George Clinton, who was allied with Jefferson and the Republicans. Four states ' electors voted for Clinton and one ( Kentucky ) for Jefferson for Vice President in opposition to incumbent John Adams as well as casting their votes for President Washington. Before 1804, electors cast two votes together without differentiation as to which office was to be filled by which candidate. In the 1796 election, the party made its first bid for the presidency with Jefferson as its presidential candidate and Aaron Burr as its vice presidential candidate. Jefferson came in second in the electoral college ( at the time, its balloting could not distinguish between President and Vice President ) and became Vice President. He would become a consistent and strong opponent of the policies of the John Adams administration. Jefferson and Madison were deeply upset by the unconstitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 and they secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which called on state legislatures to nullify unconstitutional laws. However, the other states did not follow suit and several rejected the notion that states could nullify federal law. The Republican critique of federalism became wrapped in the slogan of `` Principles of 1798 '', which became the hallmark of the party. The most important of these principles were states ' rights, opposition to a strong national government, distrust of the federal courts and opposition to the navy and the national bank. The party saw itself as a champion of republicanism and denounced the Federalists as supporters of monarchy and aristocracy. The party coalesced around Jefferson, who diligently maintained extensive correspondence with like - minded Republican leaders throughout the country. Washington frequently decried the growing sense of `` party '' emerging from the internal battles among Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams and others in his administration. As warfare in Europe increased, the two factions increasingly made foreign policy the central political issue of the day. The Republicans wanted to maintain the 1778 alliance with France, which had overthrown the monarchy and aristocracy and become a republic. Even though the UK was by far United States ' leading trading partner, Republicans feared that increased trade would undermine republicanism. The Republicans distrusted Hamilton 's national bank and rejected his premise that a national debt was good for the country as Republicans said they were both forms of corruption. They strongly distrusted the elitism of Hamilton 's circle, denouncing it as `` aristocratic '' ; and they called for states ' rights lest the Federalists centralize ever more power in the national governments. The intense debate over the Jay Treaty in 1794 -- 1795 transformed those opposed to Hamilton 's policies from a loose movement into a true political party. To fight the treaty, the Jeffersonians `` established coordination in activity between leaders at the capital, and leaders, actives and popular followings in the states, counties and towns ''. However, they were defeated when Washington mobilized public opinion in favor of the treaty. Strength in Congress over time Historians have used statistical techniques to estimate the party breakdown in Congress. Many Congressmen were hard to classify in the first few years, but after 1796 there was less uncertainty. Federalist and Democratic - Republican strength in Congress by election year Election year House 1788 1790 1792 1794 1796 1798 1800 1802 1804 1806 Federalist 37 39 51 47 57 60 38 39 25 24 Republican 28 30 54 59 49 46 65 103 116 118 Percentage Republican 43 % 43 % 51 % 56 % 46 % 43 % 63 % 73 % 82 % 83 % Senate 1788 1790 1792 1794 1796 1798 1800 1802 1804 1806 Federalist 18 16 16 21 22 22 15 9 7 6 Republican 8 13 14 11 10 10 17 25 17 28 Percentage Republican 31 % 45 % 47 % 34 % 31 % 31 % 53 % 74 % 71 % 82 % The affiliation of many Congressmen in the earliest years is an assignment by later historians ; these were slowly coalescing groups with initially considerable independent thinking and voting. Cunningham noted that only about a quarter of the House of Representatives up until 1794 voted with Madison as much as two - thirds of the time and another quarter against him two - thirds of the time, leaving almost half as fairly independent. Albert Gallatin recalled only two caucuses on legislative policy between 1795 and 1801, one over appropriations for Jay 's Treaty and the other over the Quasi-War, but in neither case did the party decide to vote unanimously. Organizational strategy The new party invented campaign and organizational techniques that were later adopted by the Federalists and became standard American practice. It was especially effective in building a network of newspapers in major cities to broadcast its statements and editorialize its policies. Fisher Ames, a leading Federalist, used the term `` Jacobin '' to link members of Jefferson 's party to the radicals of the French Revolution. He blamed the newspapers for electing Jefferson and wrote they were `` an overmatch for any Government... The Jacobins owe their triumph to the unceasing use of this engine ; not so much to skill in use of it as by repetition ''. As one historian explained : `` It was the good fortune of the Republicans to have within their ranks a number of highly gifted political manipulators and propagandists. Some of them had the ability... to not only see and analyze the problem at hand but to present it in a succinct fashion ; in short, to fabricate the apt phrase, to coin the compelling slogan and appeal to the electorate on any given issue in language it could understand ''. Outstanding propagandists included editor William Duane ( 1760 -- 1835 ) and party leaders Albert Gallatin, Thomas Cooper and Jefferson himself. Just as important was effective party organization of the sort that John J. Beckley pioneered. In 1796, he managed the Jefferson campaign in Pennsylvania, blanketing the state with agents who passed out 30,000 hand - written tickets, naming all 15 electors ( printed tickets were not allowed ). Beckley told one agent : `` In a few days a select republican friend from the City will call upon you with a parcel of tickets to be distributed in your County. Any assistance and advice you can furnish him with, as to suitable districts & characters, will I am sure be rendered ''. Beckley was the first American professional campaign manager and his techniques were quickly adopted in other states. The emergence of the new organizational strategies can be seen in the politics of Connecticut around 1806, which have been well documented by Cunningham. The Federalists dominated Connecticut, so the Republicans had to work harder to win. In 1806, the state leadership sent town leaders instructions for the forthcoming elections. Every town manager was told by state leaders `` to appoint a district manager in each district or section of his town, obtaining from each an assurance that he will faithfully do his duty ''. Then the town manager was instructed to compile lists and total the number of taxpayers and the number of eligible voters, find out how many favored the Republicans and how many the Federalists and to count the number of supporters of each party who were not eligible to vote but who might qualify ( by age or taxes ) at the next election. These highly detailed returns were to be sent to the county manager and in turn were compiled and sent to the state manager. Using these lists of potential voters, the managers were told to get all eligible people to town meetings and help the young men qualify to vote. The state manager was responsible for supplying party newspapers to each town for distribution by town and district managers. This highly coordinated `` get - out - the - vote '' drive would be familiar to modern political campaigners, but was the first of its kind in world history. Revolution of 1800 Main article : United States presidential election, 1800 The party 's electors secured a majority in the 1800 election, but an equal number of electors cast votes for Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The tie sent the election to the House and Federalists there blocked any choice. Hamilton, believing that Burr would be a poor choice for president, intervened and let Jefferson win, a move that would result in the collapse of the Federalist Party and Hamilton 's death four years later at the hands of Burr himself in a pistol duel. Starting in 1800 in what Jefferson called the `` Revolution of 1800 '', the party took control of the presidency and both houses of Congress, beginning a quarter century of control of those institutions. A faction called `` Old Republicans '' opposed the nationalism that grew popular after 1815 as they were stunned when party leaders started a Second Bank of the United States in 1816. The first official Republican Congressional Caucus meeting took place at Marache 's boarding house on May 11, 1800 in Philadelphia. The January 26, 1799 letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to Elbridge Gerry became the party 's platform. In the Senate chamber on February 25, 1804, a `` Convention of Republican members of both houses of Congress '' met. Senator Stephen Bradley presided, a Committee on Presidential Electors was formed and it was resolved that Thomas Jefferson be nominated for President and George Clinton be nominated Vice President. The party held a convention by the same name on January 23, 1808, again in the Senate chamber at 6 : 00 pm on a Saturday. Senator Stephen Bradley, who was the President pro tempore of the Senate, again served as President of the convention with Representative Richard Johnson as the Secretary. A Committee on Correspondence was formed, James Madison was nominated for President and George Clinton was re-nominated for Vice President. Legislative issues were handled by the Committee of the Whole and the elected Speaker of the House of Representatives and floor leaders, who at that time were the Chairman for the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and Chairman for the Committee on Finance of the Senate. The state legislatures often instructed Members of Congress how to vote on specific issues. More exactly, they `` instructed '' the Senators ( who were elected by the legislatures ) and `` requested '' the Representatives ( who were elected by the people ). On rare occasions a Senator resigned rather than follow instructions. The opposition Federalist Party quickly declined, suffering from a lack of leadership after the death of Hamilton and the retirement of John Adams. It revived briefly in opposition to the War of 1812, but the extremism of its Hartford Convention of 1815 utterly destroyed it as a political force. National debt Jefferson and Albert Gallatin focused on the danger that the public debt, unless it was paid off, would be a threat to republican values. They were appalled that Hamilton was increasing the national debt and using it to solidify his Federalist base. Gallatin was the Republican Party 's chief expert on fiscal issues and as Treasury Secretary under Jefferson and Madison worked hard to lower taxes and lower the debt, while at the same time paying cash for the Louisiana Purchase and funding the War of 1812. Burrows says of Gallatin : His own fears of personal dependency and his small shopkeeper 's sense of integrity, both reinforced by a strain of radical republican thought that originated in England a century earlier, convinced him that public debts were a nursery of multiple public evils -- corruption, legislative impotence, executive tyranny, social inequality, financial speculation, and personal indolence. Not only was it necessary to extinguish the existing debt as rapidly as possible, he argued, but Congress would have to ensure against the accumulation of future debts by more diligently supervising government expenditures. However, after examining at Jefferson 's direction the economic structures that Hamilton had created, Gallatin reported : I have found the most perfect system ever formed, and any change that should be made, would only injure it - Hamilton made no blunders, commited no frauds - he did nothing wrong. Fear of a large debt is a major legacy of the party. Andrew Jackson believed the national debt was a `` national curse '' and he took special pride in paying off the entire national debt in 1835. Politicians ever since have used the issue of a high national debt to denounce the other party for profligacy and a threat to fiscal soundness and the nation 's future. Monroe and Adams ( 1816 -- 1828 ) In rapidly expanding western states, the Federalists had few supporters. Every state had a distinct political geography that shaped party membership. In Pennsylvania, the Republicans were weakest around Philadelphia and strongest in Scots - Irish settlements in the west. Members came from all social classes, but came predominantly from the poor, subsistence farmers, mechanics and tradesmen. After the War of 1812, partisanship subsided across the young republic -- people called it the Era of Good Feelings. James Monroe narrowly won the party 's nomination for President in Congress over William Crawford in 1816 and defeated Federalist Rufus King in the general election. In the early years of the party, the key central organization grew out of caucuses of Congressional leaders in Washington. However, the key battles to choose electors occurred in the states, not in the caucus. In many cases, legislatures still chose electors ; and in others, the election of electors was heavily influenced by local parties that were heavily controlled by relatively small groups of officials. Without a significant Federalist opposition, the need for party unity was greatly diminished and the party 's organization faded away. James Monroe ran under the party 's banner in the 1820 election and built support by consensus. Monroe faced no serious rival and was nearly unanimously elected by the electoral college. The party 's historic domination by the Virginian delegation faded as New York and Pennsylvania became more important. In the 1824 election, most of the party in Congress boycotted the caucus ; only a small rump group backed William Crawford. The Crawford faction included most `` Old Republicans '' -- those who remained committed to states ' rights and the Principles of 1798 and were distrustful of the nationalizing program promoted by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Thomas Jefferson wrote on the state of party politics in the early 1820s : An opinion prevails that there is no longer any distinction, that the republicans & Federalists are completely amalgamated but it is not so. The amalgamation is of name only, not of principle. All indeed call themselves by the name of Republicans, because that of Federalists was extinguished in the battle of New Orleans. But the truth is that finding that monarchy is a desperate wish in this country, they rally to the point which they think next best, a consolidated government. Their aim is now therefore to break down the rights reserved by the constitution to the states as a bulwark against that consolidation, the fear of which produced the whole of the opposition to the constitution at its birth. Hence new Republicans in Congress, preaching the doctrines of the old Federalists, and the new nick - names of Ultras and Radicals. But I trust they will fail under the new, as the old name, and that the friends of the real constitution and union will prevail against consolidation, as they have done against monarchism. I scarcely know myself which is most to be deprecated, a consolidation, or dissolution of the states. The horrors of both are beyond the reach of human foresight. In the aftermath of the disputed 1824 presidential election, the separate factions took on many characteristics of parties in their own right. Adams ' supporters, in league with Clay, favored modernization, banks, industrial development and federal spending for roads and other internal improvements, which the Old Republicans and the Jackson men usually opposed. Writing in his personal journal on December 13, 1826, President Adams noted the difficulty he faced in attempting to be nonpartisan in appointing men to office : And it is upon the occasion of appointments to office that all the wormwood and the gall of the old party hatred ooze out. Not a vacancy to any office occurs but there is a distinguished federalist started and pushed home as a candidate to fill it -- always well qualified, sometimes in an eminent degree, and yet so obnoxious to the Republican party that he can not be appointed without exciting a vehement clamor against him and against the Administration. It becomes thus impossible to fill any appointment without offending one - half the community -- the federalists, if their associate is overlooked ; the Republicans, if he is preferred. Presidential electors were now all chosen by direct election, except in South Carolina, where the state legislatures chose them. White manhood suffrage was the norm throughout the West and in most of the East as well. The voters thus were much more powerful, and to win their votes required complex party organization. Under the leadership of Martin Van Buren, a firm believer in political organization, the Jacksonians built strong state and local organizations throughout the country. The Old Republicans, or `` Radicals '', mostly supported Jackson and joined with supporters of incumbent Vice President Calhoun in an alliance. President Adams was defeated by Andrew Jackson in the election of 1828. Republican party name Political parties were new in the United States, and people were not accustomed to having formal names for them. There was no single, official name for the party. Party members generally called themselves `` Republicans '' and voted for what they called the `` Republican party '', `` republican ticket '' or `` republican interest ''. Jefferson and Madison often used the terms `` republican '' and `` Republican party '' in their letters. The 1804 Convention of Republican members of Congress that renominated Jefferson described itself as a `` regular republican caucus ''. The name Democratic - Republican was used by contemporaries only occasionally. When the party split during the John Quincy Adams administration, initially its two successor parties both kept the word `` Republican '' in their names : Adams ' faction used the term `` National Republicans '', while Jackson 's faction used the term `` Democratic Republicans ''. However, Jackson 's faction soon settled on the shorter name `` Democrats ''. As a general term ( not a party name ), the word `` republican '' had been in widespread usage from the 1770s to describe the type of government the break - away colonies wanted to form : a republic of three separate branches of government derived from some principles and structure from ancient republics ; especially the emphasis on civic duty and the opposition to corruption, elitism, aristocracy and monarchy. The word is used in the United States Constitution. Legacy Further information : First Party System and Second Party System A split appeared in the then Republican party during the 1824 elections ( at the end of the Monroe administration ). When the election was thrown to the House of Representatives, Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to Andrew Jackson, a longtime political rival. Jackson defeated Adams in 1828 and in the next election the first Democratic national convention took place in Baltimore, Maryland on May 21 -- 23, 1832. It nominated Andrew Jackson for a second term and he went on to win the presidential election. The Adams / Clay alliance became the basis of the National Republican Party, a rival to the Jackson 's Democracy and one of the successors of the Democratic - Republican Party. This party favored a higher tariff in order to protect U.S. manufacturers, as well as public works, especially roads. Many former members of the defunct Federalist Party, including Daniel Webster, joined the party. After Clay 's defeat by Jackson in the 1832 presidential election, the National Republicans were absorbed into the Whig Party, a diverse group of Jackson opponents. Historian Daniel Walker Howe writes, `` Both parties ( the Democrats and the Whigs ) traced their origins to Jeffersonian Republicanism : Democrats to the Old Republicanism of Macon and Crawford ; Whigs to the new Republican nationalism of Madison and Gallatin. '' Taking a leaf from the Jacksonians, the Whigs tended to nominate non-ideological war heroes as their presidential candidates. The Whig party fell apart in the 1850s over the question of whether to allow the expansion of slavery into new territories. The modern Republican Party was formed in 1854 to oppose the expansion of slavery. Many former Whig party leaders ( such as Abraham Lincoln -- modern Republican Party supporters still sometimes refer to themselves as `` the party of Lincoln '' ) and former Free Soil Party leaders joined the newly formed anti-slavery party. The party sought to combine Jefferson 's ideals of liberty and equality with Clay 's program of using an active government to modernize the economy. Presidents Three United States Presidents were elected following a process that selected them as a national nominee of the Democratic - Republican Party. John Quincy Adams was elected in 1824, in an election where every candidate was associated with the Democratic - Republican Party, but the party selected no nominee that year. # Name Portrait State Presidency start date Presidency end date Thomas Jefferson Virginia March 4, 1801 March 4, 1809 James Madison Virginia March 4, 1809 March 4, 1817 5 James Monroe Virginia March 4, 1817 March 4, 1825 6 John Quincy Adams Massachusetts March 4, 1825 March 4, 1829 Electoral History Presidential elections Election Candidate Running mate Votes Vote % Electoral votes + / - Outcome of election 1796 Thomas Jefferson Aaron Burr 31,115 46.6 68 / 138 New Lost 1800 41,330 61.4 73 / 138 5 Victory 1804 George Clinton 104,110 72.8 162 / 176 89 Victory 1808 James Madison 124,732 64.7 122 / 176 40 Victory 1812 Elbridge Gerry 140,431 50.4 128 / 217 95 Victory DeWitt Clinton Jared Ingersoll 132,781 47.6 89 / 217 Lost 1816 James Monroe Daniel D. Tompkins 76,592 68.2 183 / 217 34 Victory 1820 87,343 80.6 231 / 232 55 Victory 1824 Andrew Jackson John C. Calhoun 151,271 41.4 99 / 261 30 Lost John Quincy Adams 113,122 30.9 84 / 261 Victory William H. Crawford Nathaniel Macon 40,856 11.2 41 / 261 Lost Henry Clay Nathan Sanford 47,531 13 37 / 261 Lost Jump up ^ For details and references, see the section Republican Party name. Jump up ^ In his first presidential run, Jefferson did not win the presidency, and Burr did not win the vice presidency. However, under the pre-12th Amendment election rules, Jefferson won the vice presidency due to dissension among Federalist electors. Jump up ^ In their second presidential run, Jefferson and Burr received the same number of electoral votes. Jefferson was subsequently chosen as President by the House of Representatives. Jump up ^ While commonly labeled as the Federalist candidate, Clinton technically ran as a Democratic - Republican and was not nominated by the Federalist party itself, the latter simply deciding not to field a candidate. This did not prevent endorsements from state Federalist parties ( such as in Pennsylvania ), but he received the endorsement from the New York state Democratic - Republicans as well. Jump up ^ William H. Crawford and Albert Gallatin were nominated for president and vice-president by a group of 66 Congressmen that called itself the `` Democratic members of Congress ''. Gallatin later withdrew from the contest. Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay ran as Republicans, although they were not nominated by any national body. While Jackson won a plurality in the electoral college and popular vote, he did not win the constitutionally required majority of electoral votes to be elected president. The contest was thrown to the House of Representatives, where Adams won with Clay 's support. The electoral college chose John C. Calhoun for vice president. Congressional elections United States House of Representatives Election year No. of overall seats won + / -- House Speaker 1794 59 / 105 New Jonathan Dayton 1796 49 / 106 10 1798 46 / 106 Theodore Sedgwick 1800 68 / 106 22 Nathaniel Macon 1802 103 / 142 35 1804 114 / 142 11 1806 116 / 142 Joseph Bradley Varnum 1808 94 / 142 22 1810 107 / 143 13 Henry Clay 1812 114 / 182 7 1814 119 / 183 5 1816 145 / 185 26 1818 162 / 186 15 1820 155 / 187 5 Philip Barbour 1822 189 / 213 34 Henry Clay United States Senate Election year No. of overall seats won + / -- Senate President 1794 / 1795 10 / 30 New John Adams 1796 / 1797 10 / 32 0 Thomas Jefferson 1798 / 1799 9 / 32 1800 / 1801 15 / 32 6 Aaron Burr 1802 / 1803 22 / 32 7 1804 / 1805 27 / 34 18 George Clinton 1806 / 1807 28 / 34 1808 / 1809 26 / 34 1810 / 1811 27 / 34 1812 / 1813 28 / 36 Elbridge Gerry 1814 / 1815 22 / 36 6 1816 / 1817 25 / 36 Daniel D. Tompkins 1818 / 1819 30 / 42 5 1820 / 1821 39 / 46 9 1822 / 1823 33 / 48 6 See also Anti-Federalism History of the United States Democratic Party Jacksonian democracy Jeffersonian democracy Liberal - Conservative Party List of political parties in the United States References ^ Jump up to : Howe, Daniel Walker ( 2007 ). What Hath God Wrought : The Transformation of America, 1815 -- 1848. New York : Oxford University Press. p. 582. Jump up ^ Ohio History Connection. `` Democratic - Republican Party ''. Ohio History Central. Retrieved August 30, 2017. Democratic - Republicans favored keeping the U.S. economy based on agriculture and said that the U.S. should serve as the agricultural provider for the rest of the world (... ). Economically, the Democratic - Republicans wanted to remain a predominantly agricultural nation, (... ). Jump up ^ `` Anti-Federalist vs. Federalist ''. Diffen. Jump up ^ Rich Rubino ( June 13, 2013 ). `` Democratic and Republican Ideologies Undergo Dramatic Role Reversal ''. HuffPost. Retrieved August 30, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Democratic - Republican Party ''. Encyclopædia Britannica. July 20, 1998. Retrieved August 30, 2017. The Republicans contended that the Federalists harboured aristocratic attitudes and that their policies placed too much power in the central government and tended to benefit the affluent at the expense of the common man. Jump up ^ `` Democratic - Republican Party ''. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Retrieved December 7, 2014. ^ Jump up to : Howe, Daniel Walker ( 2007 ). What Hath God Wrought : The Transformation of America, 1815 -- 1848. New York : Oxford University Press. pp. 210, 275. Jump up ^ Howe, Daniel Walker ( 2007 ). What Hath God Wrought : The Transformation of America, 1815 -- 1848. New York : Oxford University Press. pp. 66, 275, 897. Jump up ^ Lipset, Seymour Martin. Political Man : The Social Bases of Politics. p. 292. Jump up ^ House Democrats. `` About Us : The Democratic Caucus ''. Since its first meeting on April 2, 1796 -- to oppose a treaty with Great Britain that did not adequately protect American sailors -- the Caucus has functioned as a key vehicle for developing Democratic policy and strategy. From 1796 to 1820, for example, the Caucus nominated presidential candidates ( and eventual presidents ) Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe. Jump up ^ Larson, Edward J. ( 2007 ). A Magnificent Catastrophe : The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America 's First Presidential Campaign. pp. 17, 22. `` Although Jefferson did not oppose ratification, he became a leading voice within the faction that included both Anti-Federalists, who had opposed ratification, and more moderate critics of a strong national government. Collectively, its members became known as Republicans or, later, Democrats. '' `` During the next three decades, the party 's name would evolve from Republican into Democratic, leaving the former label for a later, indirect descendant of the Federalist faction. '' ( Referring to the modern Republican Party. ) Jump up ^ `` S. 2047 - A bill to establish a commission to commemorate the bicentennial of the establishment of the Democratic Party of the United States ''. Congress.gov. The Congress finds that -- ( 1 ) it is generally acknowledged that the evolution of the political party system in the United States provided life and flesh for the framework of democratic governance that was established by the Constitution ; ( 2 ) Thomas Jefferson founded the first political party in the United States, the Democratic Party, which was originally known as the Republican Party, in order to accommodate the honest differences of our emerging Nation 's people, to ensure that freedoms provided would be honored, to guarantee that complaints against the government could be redressed, and to effectuate the choice of the electorate in the peaceful transfer of political power ; ( 3 ) in 1992, the Democratic Party of the United States will celebrate the 200th anniversary of its establishment on May 13, 1792 ; ( 4 ) an understanding of the historical development of the Democratic Party is crucial to an understanding of the history of the United States ; and ( 5 ) it is appropriate and desirable to provide for the observation and commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Democratic Party. Jump up ^ Susan Dunn ( 2004 ). Jefferson 's Second Revolution : The Election of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 279. ISBN 0618131647. Jump up ^ Paul Kleppner, et. al. The Evolution of American Electoral Systems ( 1981 ), ch 3 Jump up ^ James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, March 2, 1794 `` I see by a paper of last evening that even in New York a meeting of the people has taken place, at the instance of the Republican Party, and that a committee is appointed for the like purpose. '' Thomas Jefferson to President Washington, May 23, 1792 `` The republican party, who wish to preserve the government in its present form, are fewer in number. They are fewer even when joined by the two, three, or half dozen anti-federalists... '' Jump up ^ William Nesbit Chambers, Political Parties in a New Nation : The American Experience, 1776 -- 1809 ( 1963 ) pp 81 -- 91. Jump up ^ Saul Cornell, The Other Founders : Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788 -- 1828 ( 1999 ) Jump up ^ Elkins and McKitrick, The Age of Federalism p. 288. Jump up ^ James Roger Sharp, American Politics in the Early Republic : The New Nation in Crisis ( 1993 ). Jump up ^ Lance Banning, The Jeffersonian Persuasion : Evolution of a Party Ideology ( 1980 ). Jump up ^ Chambers, Political Parties in a New Nation : The American Experience, 1776 -- 1809 ( 1963 ) p. 80. Jump up ^ Source : Kenneth C. Martis, The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, 1789 -- 1989 ( 1989 ). The numbers are estimates. Jump up ^ Cunningham ( 1957 ), 82. Jump up ^ Jeffrey L. Pasley. `` The Tyranny of Printers '' : Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic ( 2003 ) Jump up ^ Cunningham ( 1957 ), 167. Jump up ^ Tinkcom, 271. Jump up ^ Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., `` John Beckley : An Early American Party Manager '', William and Mary Quarterly, 13 ( Jan. 1956 ), 40 -- 52, in JSTOR Jump up ^ Cunningham ( 1963 ), 129. Jump up ^ Citation : Edwin G. Burrows. `` Gallatin, Albert '' in American National Biography Online ( 2000 ) Accessed Dec 03 2013 Jump up ^ Citation : Reminiscences of James A. Hamilton : Or, Men and Events, at Home and Abroad, During Three Quarters of a Century Publisher C. Scribner & Company, 1869 Original from the New York Public Library Digitized Jul 17, 2007 Page 23 Google Books Accessed Feb 22 2018 Jump up ^ Robert V. Remini ( 2008 ). Andrew Jackson. Macmillan. p. 180. ISBN 9780230614703. Jump up ^ Stuart Nagel ( 1994 ). Encyclopedia of Policy Studies ( 2nd ed. ). Taylor & Francis. pp. 503 -- 04. ISBN 9780824791421. Jump up ^ Klein, 44. Jump up ^ `` Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, October 27, 1822 ''. Retrieved October 2, 2006. See also : `` Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, June 12, 1823 ''. Transcript. `` Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, April 4, 1824 ''. Transcript. `` Thomas Jefferson to William Short, January 8, 1825 ''. `` Thomas Jefferson to William B. Giles, December 26, 1825 ''. Transcript. Jump up ^ Adams, John Quincy ( 1875 ). Charles Francis Adams, ed. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams : Comprising Portions of His Diary..., Volume 7. J.B. Lippincott & Company. pp. 207 -- 08. Retrieved January 14, 2013. Jump up ^ For examples of original quotes and documents from various states, see Cunningham, Noble E., Jeffersonian Republicans : The Formation of Party Organization : 1789 -- 1801 ( 1957 ), pp. 48, 63 -- 66, 97, 99, 103, 110, 111, 112, 144, 151, 153, 156, 157, 161, 163, 188, 196, 201, 204, 213, 218 and 234. See also `` Address of the Republican committee of the County of Gloucester, New - Jersey '', Gloucester County, December 15, 1800. Jump up ^ Jefferson used the term `` republican party '' in a letter to Washington in May 1792 to refer to those in Congress who were his allies and who supported the existing republican constitution. `` Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, May 23, 1792 ''. Retrieved October 4, 2006. At a conference with Washington a year later, Jefferson referred to `` what is called the republican party here ''. Bergh, ed. Writings of Thomas Jefferson ( 1907 ) 1 : 385, 8 : 345 Jump up ^ `` James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, March 2, 1794 ''. Retrieved October 14, 2006. `` I see by a paper of last evening that even in New York a meeting of the people has taken place, at the instance of the Republican party, and that a committee is appointed for the like purpose. '' See also : Smith, 832. `` James Madison to William Hayward, March 21, 1809. Address to the Republicans of Talbot Co. Maryland ''. Retrieved October 27, 2006. `` Thomas Jefferson to John Melish, January 13, 1813 ''. Retrieved October 27, 2006. `` The party called republican is steadily for the support of the present constitution '' `` James Madison to Baltimore Republican Committee, April 22, 1815 ''. Retrieved October 27, 2006. `` James Madison to William Eustis, May 22, 1823 ''. Retrieved October 27, 2006. Transcript. `` The people are now able every where to compare the principles and policy of those who have borne the name of Republicans or Democrats with the career of the adverse party and to see and feel that the former are as much in harmony with the Spirit of the Nation as the latter was at variance with both. '' Jump up ^ See The Aurora General Advertiser ( Philadelphia ), April. 30, 1795, p. 3 ; New Hampshire Gazette ( Portsmouth ), October 15, 1796, p. 3 ; Claypoole 's American Daily Advertiser ( Philadelphia ), October 10, 1797, p. 3 ; Columbian Centinel ( Boston ), September 15, 1798, p. 2 ; Alexandria ( VA ) Times, October 8, 1798, p. 2 ; Daily Advertiser ( New York ), September 22, 1800, p. 2 & November 25, 1800, p. 2 ; The Oracle of Dauphin ( Harrisburg ), October 6, 1800, p. 3 ; Federal Gazette ( Baltimore ), October 23, 1800, p. 3 ; The Spectator ( New York ), October 25, 1800, p. 3 ; Poulson 's American Daily Advertiser ( Philadelphia ), November 19, 1800, p. 3 ; Windham ( CT ) Herald, November 20, 1800, p. 2 ; City Gazette ( Charleston ), November 22, 1800, p. 2 ; The American Mercury ( Hartford ), November 27, 1800, p. 3 ; and Constitutional Telegraphe ( Boston ), November 29, 1800, p. 3. After 1802, some local organizations slowly began merging `` Democratic '' into their own name and became known as the `` Democratic Republicans ''. Examples include 1802, 1803, 1804, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, 1809. Jump up ^ Banning, 79 -- 90. Jump up ^ `` The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government '' ( Constitution of the United States, Art. 4. Sect. 4. ) Jump up ^ `` The Origin of the Republican Party, A.F. Gilman, Ripon College, 1914 ''. Content.wisconsinhistory.org. Retrieved January 17, 2012. Jump up ^ Gould, 14. ^ Jump up to : Howe, Daniel Walker ( 2007 ). What Hath God Wrought : The Transformation of America, 1815 -- 1848. New York : Oxford University Press. p. 203. All the rival presidential candidates called themselves Republicans, and each claimed to be the logical successor to the Jeffersonian heritage. Jump up ^ `` Anti-Caucus / Caucus ''. Washington Republican. February 6, 1824. 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Question: who was the first president from the newly evolved democratic-republican party
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