[DOC] [TLE] Abraham Lincoln Pre-Presidential Political Timeline [PAR] In 1856 he joined the newly formed Republican Party; two years later he ran for 
the U.S. Senate, ... Wins election to Congress as Whig Party representative. [DOC] [TLE] SS Ch15-3 Flashcards | Quizlet [PAR] Whom did the Democratic party nominate in the presidential election of 1856? ... 
race that pitted Democrat Stephen A. Douglas against Republican Abraham 
Lincoln in 1858. Illinois ... he was tried and found guilty of murder so he was hung 
... Antislavery Whigs Democrats, and Free Soilers joined together to form the 
____. [DOC] [TLE] Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia [PAR] Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and 
was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, in which he served for eight
... [DOC] [TLE] Lincoln the Politician before the Civil War - Illinois Periodicals Online [PAR] Shortly after announcing he would run, the young Lincoln served in the Black ... 
the Whig Party's nomination to run for U. S. House of Representatives in 1846. 
He ... His anti-slavery beliefs were to have great consequences after his election 
to the presidency. In 1856 he joined the Republican Party and got 110 votes for 
the... [DOC] [TLE] ch15s3.ppt [PAR] After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Democratic Party began to divide among ... 
The Republicans put a candidate up for the presidential election of 1856 ... Scott 
claimed he should be free because he lived where slavery was prohibited (
Illinois and ... Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers joined together to 
form the. [DOC] [TLE] Abraham Lincoln: Life Before the PresidencyMiller Center [PAR] He was a stern man whom young Abe never liked very much. .... but returned to 
public life in 1846 to win the Whig nomination for a seat from the Illinois ... 
abandoned the defunct Whig Party and joined the new Republican Party in 1856. 
... won the election and carried Illinois, Lincoln's Republican Party did 
surprisingly well,... [DOC] [TLE] The Formation of the Republican Party: 1850 to 1865 | Soapboxie [PAR] Oct 17, 2016 ... Part One: 1850 to 1856 ... The Republican Party Forms around the Issue of 
Slavery ... In 1845, before the election of James K. Polk, Congress annexed 
Texas and ... This event contributed to a war with Mexico in 1846, which many ... 
find himself a member of the Whig, Liberty, and Free Soil parties, he is best... [DOC] [TLE] The History Place presents Abraham Lincoln [PAR] On August 3rd, he is re-elected to the Illinois General Assembly. In autumn, he ... 
1846 - March 10th, a son, Edward Baker Lincoln is born. On May 1st, Abe is 
nominated to be the Whig candidate for U.S. Congress. On August 3rd ... 1856 - 
May 29th, Lincoln helps organize the new Republican Party of Illinois. At the first
... [DOC] [TLE] The Illinois Republican Party - JStor [PAR] vention at Decatur, Illinois, on February 22, 1856. ... Edward Magdol, Owen 
Lovejoy: Abolitionist in Congress (New Brunswick, ... can party." Jay Monaghan, 
The Man Who Elected Lincoln (Indianapolis: .... Western Citizen (Chicago), May 
13, 1846, p. 1 . .... Whig background he could draw hesitant Whigs into the 
movement. [DOC] [TLE] Racism and the founding of the GOP: Abraham Lincoln, the Civil ... [PAR] Sep 13, 2014 ... He was more nearly the founder of the Republican Party than any other one man
. ... By the beginning of 1856 a variety of Northern antislavery forces ... In 1850 he 
joined others in Missouri who condemned slavery's ... Elected to Congress in 
1846 for a single term, Lincoln was a loyal and partisan Whig. [DOC] [TLE] Abraham Lincoln, Owen Lovejoy, and the Emergence of the ... [PAR] The rise of the Republican party is thus essential in understanding the coming of 
the Civil War. ... In 1856, anti-Nebraska sentiment propelled Lovejoy to Congress 
and brought Lincoln ... He was hesitant to give up hope on the Whigs, spent 
much of the 1854 ... In Illinois,

Question: In 1846 he was elected to Congress as an Illinois Whig; in 1856 he joined the antislavery Republican Party
Answer: Abraham Lincoln