Question: What party was the namesake of the Seward neighborhood a member of?
Context: William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as Governor of New York and United States Senator.  A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a dominant figure in the Republican Party in its formative years, and was praised for his work on behalf of the Union as Secretary of State during the American Civil War. The Seward Community Cafe is a collectively-run cooperative restaurant in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, notable for being the oldest worker-run restaurant in the United States.  Since its founding, the cafe has been owned and managed by a worker-owner collective of about 10-16 people, all of whom start at the same wage and are given the option of becoming a co-owner within six months of starting work.  Management is structured in a non-hierarchical manner, and decisions are made by consensus.  The cafe is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The Seward neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., is geographically southeast of downtown and defined by the triangle of land bordered by Hiawatha Avenue to the west, Minneapolis Midtown Greenway (between E. 27th St. and E. 28th St.) to the south, the Mississippi River to the east, and Interstate 94 to the north.  Seward's bordering neighborhoods are Cooper to the Southeast, Longfellow to the South, East Phillips to the Southwest, Ventura Village to the West, Cedar-Riverside to the North, and Prospect Park/East River Road across the Mississippi River to the East.  It is one of the neighborhoods that is part of the larger Longfellow community.  Seward was named after former New York senator, governor, and US Secretary of State William H. Seward. The Milwaukee Avenue Historic District is a historic district in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the Seward neighborhood.  The district comprises two city blocks of small homes on quarter-sized lots.  These houses were built between 1884 and 1890 by William Ragan, a Minneapolis real estate speculator.  Built for lower-income residents, the houses had deteriorated in condition by the end of World War II, and by the 1970s, were planned for demolition.  A group of residents and concerned citizens fought to save the houses, eventually leading to their inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places and the federal protection and rehabilitation that comes with the designation.  Today, the houses sit along a bike- and pedestrian-friendly mall on which motor traffic is prohibited. Frederick William Seward (July 8, 1830 – April 25, 1915) was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who twice served as the Assistant Secretary of State.  The son of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward, he served as Assistant Secretary from 1861 to 1869 under both Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and then from 1877 to 1879 in the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes. Harrie Stephen Seward (26 February 1884 – 23 July 1958) was an Australian politician.  Born at Rochester, Victoria, he was educated in Ballarat at St Patrick's College.  He became a bank officer, and moved to Western Australia, becoming a farmer at Pingelly from 1913.  He served in the military 1915-1919.  In 1933 he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly as the Country Party member for Pingelly, serving as Minister for Railways and Transport from 1947 until 1948.  In 1950, he left the Assembly, and in 1951 was elected to the Australian Senate as a Country Party Senator for Western Australia.  He held the seat until his death in 1958. The Playwrights' Center is a non-profit theatre organization focused on both supporting playwrights and promoting new plays to production at theaters across the country.  Its mission is to champion "playwrights and new plays to build upon a living theater that demands new and innovative work."  It is located in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. King's Fair, a precursor to the Minnesota State Fair, was held in South Minneapolis from 1877 through 1882.  Since 1979 the name has also been used for a biennial gathering in the Seward neighborhood. Karen J. Clark (born July 23, 1945) is a Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.  A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represents District 62A, which includes portions of the city of Minneapolis in the Twin Cities metropolitan area including portions of the Whittier, Phillips, Ventura Village, Seward, and Lyn-Lake neighborhoods.  She is the longest serving openly lesbian member to serve in a state legislature in the United States. The election was the Liberal Party's first major showing since its formation in 1944-1945 out of the former Nationalist Party.  Coincidental with this, in 1944, was the significant change in the fortunes of the Country Party when the Primary Producers' Association, of which the Party had been the political wing, passed a motion during negotiations with the Wheatgrowers' Union deleting the rule which authorised the Party's existence and its use of PPA branches and funds for party purposes.  A new organisation was hastily set up by the Opposition Leader Arthur Watts and the member for Pingelly, Harrie Seward, who were very active in setting up branches to endorse local candidates and obtaining donations on which to run the 1947 campaign.  This was the start of a significant decline in the Country Party's fortunes over the ensuing decades.
Answer: the Republican Party