North Carolina Republican Party

The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) is the affiliate of the Republican Party in North Carolina. Michael Whatley was elected Chairman of the party on June 8, 2019.
Although Republicans first nominated a candidate for President of the United States, John C. Fremont, in 1856. 
The party was not established in North Carolina until 1867, after the Civil War. With the help of the newly enfranchised freedmen, Republicans were briefly successful in state politics, dominating the convention that wrote the Constitution of North Carolina of 1868 and electing several governors
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